native land

Questions about native land

What is another word for native land?

It depends which native land you mean. In the sense “the country where you were born”, the synonyms are fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of native land?

WordNet records no antonym for native land. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for native land come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of native land

• Full entry for native landAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for native landWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.