/ ˈhəʊmlænd; NAmE ˈhoʊm-/ noun
1.
[ usually sing. ] the country where a person was born :
Many refugees have been forced to flee their homeland.
2.
[ usually pl. ] (in the Republic of South Africa under the apartheid system in the past) one of the areas with some self-government that were intended for a group of black African people to live in :
the Transkei homeland