HOMELAND


Meaning of HOMELAND in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

homeland security

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

flee

Large numbers of Shiluk who had fled their southern homeland were working as labourers for Sabaha farmers in the Kosti area.

She fled her homeland when a network furnishing medical supplies for Ossetian rebels, in which she participated, was broken up.

leave

So in the spring of 1904 he left his homeland , never to return.

Now nobody can make him fight, but he can not leave his new homeland as he has no passport.

The earliest had left their homeland during the turmoil of its unification.

There had been considerable loss of life, and thousands had been forced to leave their homelands .

return

When he returns safely to his homeland you will not find me ungrateful.

The general was campaigning for the right of the Crimean Tatars to return to their homeland .

They graze through the monsoon and return to their homeland in September.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the creation of a Jewish homeland

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

After nine years' captivity at Theodore's court he had escaped from Magdala and returned to his homeland .

But what could be strong enough to drive a man from his homeland , to face terrible dangers in the skies?

Dmitri Passk was a non-runner, with a wife and two children to hold him firmly to his homeland .

He justly observes that the great tenor sang best of all in his homeland .

Past treatment of the aborigines has been shameful, but these days efforts are made to respect their customs and traditional homelands.

The purpose for living could have been revenge, to build a new homeland , or to see their family.

This province is the homeland of the Halflings, where they live under their own government and laws.

Was it my fate to live away from my homeland ?

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