fatherland
Substantivin Dialogen belegt
The country of one's ancestors.
Substantiv
- 1
The country of one's ancestors.
- 2
The country of one's birth, origin.
Lenin frequently expressed himself on these lines before and during the War; he quoted with emphasis the famous saying that the working man has no fatherland, and believed it quite literally.
Herkunft
From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”). Does not continue Middle English fæderland, from Old English fæderland. First attested in the 1620s.
Formen
- Plural
- fatherlands