Crossword-Solution: MOTHERLAND
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Motherland | n. | The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOTHERLAND | anagram | ENTHRALDOM |
We have 11 clues for the answer “MOTHERLAND”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Country of birth | 1 answer |
| Land of one's ancestors. | 1 answer |
| One's place of origin. | 1 answer |
| a country regarded as a place of origin (as of an idea or a movement) | 1 answer |
| NATIVE country | 5 answers |
| fatherland | 11 answers |
| mother country | 18 answers |
| homeland | 22 answers |
| Kingdom | 61 answers |
| Domain | 76 answers |
| "___ Country." | 86 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOTHERLAND (5)
Paterson now proves beyond question that Australia has produced at least one singer who can voice in truest poetry the aspirations and experiences peculiar to the Commonwealth, and who is to be ranked with the foremost living poets of the motherland." * "Fine, swinging, stirring stuff, that sings as it goes along.
Aren't they the lovely lads! Haven't you a tear for them Going out so gallantly to dare and die? What is it they're singing so? Some high hymn of Motherland? Some immortal chanson of their Faith and King? 'Marseillaise' or 'Brabanc,on', anthem of that other land, Dears, let us remember it, that song they sing: _"C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee', C'est un chemin long, c'est vrai; C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee', Et la belle fille qu'je connais.
Mercer Adam JEFFERSON, when he penned the famous Declaration of Independence, which broke all hope of reconciliation with the motherland and showed England what the deeply-wronged Colonies of the New World unitedly desired and would in the last resort fight for, had then just passed his thirty-third birthday.
Some were on their honeymoon tours, others were returning to their motherland after having passed the weeks of the honeymoon, like Colonel John Jacob Astor and his young bride, amid the diversions of Egypt or other Old World countries.
And 'tis on this account That armed they escort the mighty Mother, Or else because they signify by this That she, the goddess, teaches men to be Eager with armed valour to defend Their motherland, and ready to stand forth, The guard and glory of their parents' years.
Quotes with MOTHERLAND (3)
How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.' 'You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.' My father also considered himself guilty. That's how they'd been trained.
In forty minutes, people will be shooting at these 19 year old boys. And they will shoot back, and they will kill. That is the law of war: if you don’t kill first, they’ll kill you. We didn’t invent this law. But having landed in a war, we have to live by its rules. And the quicker you learn the rules, the longer you have to live by them. You don’t think about whether you are defending someone’s revolution or defending the ‘southern borders of the motherland’. You simply shoo…
Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1943–2005).