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Definition of homeland in English: homelandnoun ˈhəʊmlandˈhoʊmˌlænd 1A person's or a people's native land. he left his homeland to settle in London Example sentencesExamples - He figured he had a better chance at success as a native in his homeland than in the U.S. as a foreigner.
- He said that in his homeland even acknowledging homosexuality could land someone in jail.
- He resisted communist rule in his homeland, reached out to other faiths, and traveled widely across the world.
- However, when these Muslims left their homelands for foreign lands, it was with a missionary spirit.
- Many of the poems are about the pain of separation from loved ones or one's homeland.
- Yet I was determined to settle down and carve out my destiny in my homeland.
- For example, a significant number of young Hispanics and Asians are visiting their parents' homelands to study their parents' native languages.
- Unlike their offspring, who have few memories of Laos, these community elders have not forgotten their homeland.
- A sizeable segment of the population was forced to flee their homeland and to take asylum in other countries.
- That would make her happy, but it doesn't mean she'll be settling down in her homeland.
- That has elevated them to iconic status in their homeland, where Sukur in particular is now more popular than David Beckham is in England.
- Stations broadcast daily to all European occupied countries, using native speakers who had escaped the invasion of their homelands.
- Everyone should work hard for their homeland, society and country.
- He was banned for a year for his action and became a national hero in his homeland.
- Some were unable to save enough money to buy land and in some regions of their homeland no land was available.
- A group of five students from Germany have organised an exhibition in Sligo on their native homeland.
- Somewhere around the age of 14 he left his native homeland for Canada never to return.
- Asylum seekers cannot call upon their homelands for protection.
- People being told to leave their homeland and settle somewhere over a green line was something I could not come to terms with.
- Instead she has been criticised for spending too little time in her homeland and for speaking her native language with an American accent.
- The Iraqi community in Canada is restoring links with its homeland.
Synonyms native land, native country, country of origin, home, fatherland, motherland, mother country, land of one's fathers, the old country - 1.1 An autonomous or semi-autonomous state occupied by a particular people.
they have been fighting for an independent homeland for nearly 30 years Example sentencesExamples - At home, our most important priority is to protect the homeland for the American people.
- He fails to provide his readers with some important concepts that could help inform the homeland security policy debate.
- The Tigers have shelved a demand for a separate homeland in favor of a federal system of governance.
- They had changed their ancient attitude of being a people in exile to being citizens with a homeland.
- Muslim leaders will cry foul and ask the US and the UN to intervene, claiming genocide and demanding separate homelands within India to protect their kind.
- But from high up in the Huachuca Mountains, the desert valley below just looks like land, not like two different national homelands.
- They also need to learn that the very lands that now constitute the productive heartlands of the United States are the original homelands of Native Americans.
- All these steps to protect the homeland have made us safer but we're not yet safe.
- The entire forest is part of the homeland of the Anishinabe Nation.
- The Kurds are the largest single ethnic group without a national homeland.
- Tamil rebels in the island nation have been fighting for a separate homeland for nearly three decades.
- The rebels had been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland in the country's north and east.
- It allows for the self-defense of Japan's homeland but prohibits collective defense.
- Eventually, he found an electrifying slogan in the promise to create separate Muslim homelands in India.
- Veenendaal supported the fantasy of a Boer homeland achieved by driving out the black population.
- This communication was accepted by the Jewish community as Great Britain's support for a Jewish homeland.
- There is particular suspicion of the Kurds and their cherished dream of a separate homeland.
- The Arctic is now a resource frontier for the global economy as well as a homeland for its indigenous peoples.
- However the Sri Lankan army has continued to occupy part of the area claimed by Tamils as their homeland.
- Isn't he going to use that money to fight terror and protect the homeland and a whole host of other things.
- 1.2historical Any of ten partially self-governing areas in South Africa designated for particular indigenous African peoples under the former policy of apartheid.
Example sentencesExamples - The Bantu homelands were abolished following South Africa's adoption of a multiracial constitution in 1994 and South African nationality was restored to all their citizens.
- It is now obvious even to the Afrikaners that the apartheid fantasy of a South Africa split up into tribal homelands, known as Bantustans, was bound eventually to collapse under what Marxists would term its own contradictions.
- Africans living in the homelands needed passports to enter South Africa.
- At present, these courts are governed by the statutes of the former apartheid government and the former homelands and self-governing territories.
- Prior to this monumental occasion blacks were systematically moved to restricted areas and homelands, and had no political or economic power.
Definition of homeland in US English: homelandnounˈhōmˌlandˈhoʊmˌlænd 1A person's or a people's native land. I could finally go back to my homeland Example sentencesExamples - Everyone should work hard for their homeland, society and country.
- He figured he had a better chance at success as a native in his homeland than in the U.S. as a foreigner.
- A group of five students from Germany have organised an exhibition in Sligo on their native homeland.
- He was banned for a year for his action and became a national hero in his homeland.
- He resisted communist rule in his homeland, reached out to other faiths, and traveled widely across the world.
- The Iraqi community in Canada is restoring links with its homeland.
- However, when these Muslims left their homelands for foreign lands, it was with a missionary spirit.
- For example, a significant number of young Hispanics and Asians are visiting their parents' homelands to study their parents' native languages.
- Yet I was determined to settle down and carve out my destiny in my homeland.
- A sizeable segment of the population was forced to flee their homeland and to take asylum in other countries.
- That would make her happy, but it doesn't mean she'll be settling down in her homeland.
- Instead she has been criticised for spending too little time in her homeland and for speaking her native language with an American accent.
- Asylum seekers cannot call upon their homelands for protection.
- Stations broadcast daily to all European occupied countries, using native speakers who had escaped the invasion of their homelands.
- That has elevated them to iconic status in their homeland, where Sukur in particular is now more popular than David Beckham is in England.
- Many of the poems are about the pain of separation from loved ones or one's homeland.
- Somewhere around the age of 14 he left his native homeland for Canada never to return.
- He said that in his homeland even acknowledging homosexuality could land someone in jail.
- Unlike their offspring, who have few memories of Laos, these community elders have not forgotten their homeland.
- People being told to leave their homeland and settle somewhere over a green line was something I could not come to terms with.
- Some were unable to save enough money to buy land and in some regions of their homeland no land was available.
Synonyms native land, native country, country of origin, home, fatherland, motherland, mother country, land of one's fathers, the old country - 1.1 An autonomous or semiautonomous state occupied by a particular people.
the group is fighting for a separate homeland Example sentencesExamples - But from high up in the Huachuca Mountains, the desert valley below just looks like land, not like two different national homelands.
- Eventually, he found an electrifying slogan in the promise to create separate Muslim homelands in India.
- Tamil rebels in the island nation have been fighting for a separate homeland for nearly three decades.
- Muslim leaders will cry foul and ask the US and the UN to intervene, claiming genocide and demanding separate homelands within India to protect their kind.
- At home, our most important priority is to protect the homeland for the American people.
- The Tigers have shelved a demand for a separate homeland in favor of a federal system of governance.
- Isn't he going to use that money to fight terror and protect the homeland and a whole host of other things.
- They had changed their ancient attitude of being a people in exile to being citizens with a homeland.
- Veenendaal supported the fantasy of a Boer homeland achieved by driving out the black population.
- The Arctic is now a resource frontier for the global economy as well as a homeland for its indigenous peoples.
- All these steps to protect the homeland have made us safer but we're not yet safe.
- There is particular suspicion of the Kurds and their cherished dream of a separate homeland.
- This communication was accepted by the Jewish community as Great Britain's support for a Jewish homeland.
- It allows for the self-defense of Japan's homeland but prohibits collective defense.
- The entire forest is part of the homeland of the Anishinabe Nation.
- The Kurds are the largest single ethnic group without a national homeland.
- He fails to provide his readers with some important concepts that could help inform the homeland security policy debate.
- They also need to learn that the very lands that now constitute the productive heartlands of the United States are the original homelands of Native Americans.
- However the Sri Lankan army has continued to occupy part of the area claimed by Tamils as their homeland.
- The rebels had been fighting since 1983 for a separate homeland in the country's north and east.
- 1.2historical Any of ten partially self-governing areas in South Africa designated for particular indigenous African peoples under the former policy of apartheid.
Example sentencesExamples - The Bantu homelands were abolished following South Africa's adoption of a multiracial constitution in 1994 and South African nationality was restored to all their citizens.
- Prior to this monumental occasion blacks were systematically moved to restricted areas and homelands, and had no political or economic power.
- It is now obvious even to the Afrikaners that the apartheid fantasy of a South Africa split up into tribal homelands, known as Bantustans, was bound eventually to collapse under what Marxists would term its own contradictions.
- At present, these courts are governed by the statutes of the former apartheid government and the former homelands and self-governing territories.
- Africans living in the homelands needed passports to enter South Africa.
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