单词 | patria |
释义 | patrian. A person's native country or homeland. Also in extended use: a spiritual homeland, heaven. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] bliss971 heavenOE paradiseOE towera1240 seatc1275 heavenwarda1300 Abraham's bosomc1300 tabernaclea1340 wonea1350 sanctuary1382 pasturec1384 firmament1388 sky?1518 Canaan1548 welkin1559 happy land1562 sphere?1592 heavenwards1614 afterworld1615 patria1707 god-home1848 overworld1858 the invisible1868 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > homeland or native land kithc888 etheleOE erdOE homeOE motherOE fatherlandc1275 countrya1300 soila1400 countrywarda1425 motherland1565 mother country1567 patrie1581 native1604 homelanda1627 home country1707 patria1707 old country1751 the (old) sod1812 home birth1846 Vaterland1852 old sod1863 motherland1895 Bongo Bongo1911 sireland1922 1707 D. Defoe Sc. Poem 1 Nothing more we hear, But richest Blessings, to our Patria dear. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. in Crit. 246 We do not, like them [sc. the ancients] love our patria, that is to say, the country and the laws of our fathers, rather we love the laws and the country of our children. a1914 J. Joyce Stephen Hero (1944) xix. 64 He refused therefore to set out for any task if he had first to prejudice his success by oaths to his patria. 1959 C. S. Lewis Let. 5 Nov. (1966) 289 It is just when there seems to be most of Heaven already here that I come nearest to longing for a patria. 1992 Rep. Americas July 7/3 Chief among the coup plotters' concerns, it seems, was defense of the Patria—in the sense of the physical land. 2000 Business World (Philippines) (Nexis) 24 Jan. 4 To Christian Europe, the true patria was heaven, the true home of Christ's believers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1707 |
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