old country 
noun (the old country)
The native country of a person who has gone to live abroad.There was an amazingly diverse audience at the show, proving that Celtic music is not just for old folk from the old country - long live the fiddle!...
- The gentleman was an old friend of Maurice's father, from the old country.
- It is perfectly worth his while to pay, besides these high wages, the cost of the passage of free labour from the old country to the colony.
- retrogressivism
- retroguard
- retro-ignition
- retro-impulse
- retroject
- retrojection
- retrolental fibroplasia
- retromanoeuvre
- retro-migration
- retromingency
- retromingent
- retromorphosis
- retronym
- retrooperative
- retropannage
- retroperitoneal
- retroperitoneum
- retropharyngeal
- retroposition
- retroposon
- retropropulsion
- retropulsion
- retropulsive
- retroreflection
- retroreflective