mother country

English - Turkish

Definition of mother country in English Turkish dictionary

anavatan

Ailesi kırk yıl önce anavatanından Brezilya'ya göç etti. - His family emigrated from their mother country to Brazil forty years ago.

memleket

anayurt, anavatan

Related Terms

mother lode country

anne maden damarı ülke

English - English

Definition of mother country in English English dictionary

The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland, homeland

If you refer to the mother country of a particular state or country, you are referring to the very powerful country that used to control its affairs. Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, had no colonial conflict with the mother country

country where one was born

Someone's mother country is the country in which they or their ancestors were born and to which they still feel emotionally linked, even if they live somewhere else. Dr Kengerli looks to Turkey as his mother country. = motherland

Related Terms

Mother Lode Country

Former gold-rush belt, Sierra Nevada foothills, central California, U.S. It was about 150 mi (240 km) long but only a few miles wide. The gold rush was sparked by the 1848 discovery of placer gold on John Sutter's property. The term mother lode evolved from the miners' concept of one main quartz vein with subsidiary offshoot veins. Exhaustion of the main gold streaks and a government-enforced price structure for gold caused mining operations to cease there in the 1930s. The area is dotted with scores of ghost camps and old mining towns

Hyphenation

moth·er coun·try

Turkish pronunciation

mʌdhır kʌntri

Synonyms

homeland, motherland, native soil, the old country

Pronunciation

/ˈməᴛʜər ˈkəntrē/ /ˈmʌðɜr ˈkʌntriː/

Etymology

[ 'm&-[th]&r ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English moder, from Old English mOdor; akin to Old High German muoter mother, Latin mater, Greek mEtEr, Sanskrit mAtr.