old country

1. 1.

   the country of origin of an immigrant

   Broaderfatherland

Questions about old country

What does old country mean?

old country means "the country of origin of an immigrant".

Is old country a common word?

old 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.