“motherland”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

motherland

释义

motherland|ˈmʌðəlænd, -lənd|
[f. mother n.¹ + land n.¹]
a. A country as the mother or producer of anything.
b. The country of one's origin; one's native country.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 42 It happen'd of old in [Egypt] this Mother-Land of Superstition.c1823Southey Inscr. at Clachnacharry, Egypt, mother-land of all the arts.1828Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 218 Our own stern Mother⁓land.1846C. G. Prowett Prometh. Bound 53 Scythia was to the Greeks the mother-land of iron.1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & Passion II. 246 The longing for one's motherland.1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 40 The way⁓farer from the misty mother-lands.

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