native land

1. 1.

   the country where you were born

   Synonymsfatherlandhomelandmotherlandmother countrycountry of origin

   Broadercountry

   Narrowerold country

Questions about native land

What does native land mean?

native land means "the country where you were born".

What is another word for native land?

Close synonyms include fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin. 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 native land a common word?

native land 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.