fatherland

Other forms of fatherland

plural

fatherlands·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fatherland

What does fatherland mean?

fatherland means "the country where you were born".

How many syllables are in fatherland?

fatherland has 3 syllables: fa-ther-land. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfɑðɚˌlænd/.

What is another word for fatherland?

Close synonyms include homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fatherland a common word?

fatherland is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fatherland?

29 words rhyme with fatherland. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.