mother country

1. 1.

   the country where you were born

   Synonymsfatherlandhomelandmotherlandcountry of originnative land

   Broadercountry

   Narrowerold country

Questions about mother country

What does mother country mean?

mother country means "the country where you were born".

What is another word for mother country?

Close synonyms include fatherland, homeland, motherland, 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 mother country a common word?

mother country is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.