Thesaurus results for HOMELAND

homeland

noun

ˈhōm-ˌland

as in home

the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life

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Recent Examples of homeland Zoom out: Sikh separatists in India have for decades sought to create a separate homeland for the ethnoreligious group called Khalistan in the Punjab region of India. —

Rebecca Falconer, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024 Tate’s work celebrates the animals of his people’s Southeastern homelands, with movements named for the squirrel, the bird, the fish, the deer and the raccoon. —

Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024 Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff and former homeland security secretary John Kelly spoke to The New York Times in late October and expressed his concerns about a second Trump presidency. —

Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024 Others worry about violence or difficult economic conditions in their homelands. —

Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for homeland