Parentland

Quick meaning: Parentland is a noun meaning The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.

Meaning

The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.

Example Sentences

Neither the parentland nor the nature of their common boundary is known for these highly contrasting terranes.

For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.

The actual parentland of the Aryans, not the one confused with the paradise, is identified, with reason, with Atropatene (Atropatkan, Azerbaijan) on the south-west coast of the Caspian.

Perhaps the culture of New Zealand and Australia is more like that in the parentland than that in any other of the new Europes, because these settlements are isolated from other large masses of Europeans.

Word Forms

• parentlands

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include motherland, homeland, urheimat, ur-homeland, colony, ethnoterritory.

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