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nounthe country where you were born
Definition that contains homeland
- colony a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- settlement a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
- eta a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees
- uproot move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- zionism a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
- repatriate send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees
- deracinate move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment
- xinjiang an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people
- homeland security the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security
- federal law enforcement training center a center in the Department of Homeland Security that trains law enforcement professionals for more than seventy federal agencies