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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Nunez started his career at Penarol in his homeland before moving to Spain to join Almeria in 2019.
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Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Other nations, too, will be represented on the menu, showcasing the fare of their homelands.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
Tens of thousands of white settlers were allowed to claim land previously set aside by the government for Native American tribes after they were forced from their homelands in the southeast.
—Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 2 Apr. 2025
The planned development would sit 100 miles from the tribe’s ancestral Lake County homelands.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
Other nations, too, will be represented on the menu, showcasing the fare of their homelands.
—Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2025
Tens of thousands of white settlers were allowed to claim land previously set aside by the government for Native American tribes after they were forced from their homelands in the southeast.
—Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 2 Apr. 2025
The planned development would sit 100 miles from the tribe’s ancestral Lake County homelands.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for homeland
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“Homeland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homeland. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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