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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
Andrei Platonov

Meaning of "home country" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOME COUNTRY

home country  [həʊm ˈkʌntrɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOME COUNTRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Home country is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOME COUNTRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Home Nations

The Home Nations refers collectively to England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and in certain sports context, to England, Scotland, Wales and the whole island of Ireland. The term "Home Nations" is used in this second sense partly because Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have a unified association structure in certain sports, such as the Irish Rugby Football Union. This is a holdover from the period between 1800 and 1922, before the political partition of Ireland, when the whole island was part of the United Kingdom. The term home countries is also sometimes used, and is synonymous. The term has yet a third meaning in the context of British Cycling, where it refers collectively to the seven teams representing the four constituent countries of United Kingdom plus the three Crown Dependencies that participate in the Commonwealth Games. The Crown Dependencies are not part of the United Kingdom, but are politically associated with it, and together make up the British Islands.

Definition of home country in the English dictionary

The definition of home country in the dictionary is the country a person comes from.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOME COUNTRY


Aintree
ˈeɪntrɪ
back-country
ˈbækˌkʌntrɪ
carpentry
ˈkɑːpɪntrɪ
country
ˈkʌntrɪ
Coventry
ˈkɒvəntrɪ
Daventry
ˈdævəntrɪ
entry
ˈɛntrɪ
gantry
ˈɡæntrɪ
gentry
ˈdʒɛntrɪ
infantry
ˈɪnfəntrɪ
intercountry
ˌɪntəˈkʌntrɪ
muntrie
ˈmʌntrɪ
noncountry
ˌnɒnˈkʌntrɪ
north-country
ˈnɔːθˌkʌntrɪ
pantry
ˈpæntrɪ
passementerie
pæsˈmɛntrɪ
re-entry
riːˈɛntrɪ
sentry
ˈsɛntrɪ
upcountry
ʌpˈkʌntrɪ
wintry
ˈwɪntrɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOME COUNTRY

home automation
home baking
home banking
home base
home brand
home brew
home care
home comforts
home computer
home cooking
Home Counties
home delivery
home economics
home economist
home entertainment system
home farm
home field
home front
home game
home ground

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOME COUNTRY

back country
Black Country
cross-country
developing country
go to the country
high country
hill country
host country
King Country
light infantry
native country
New Country
North Country
old country
the Black Country
the country
the King Country
the North Country
the West Country
unknown country
West Country

Synonyms and antonyms of home country in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «home country» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOME COUNTRY

Find out the translation of home country to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of home country from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «home country» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

家乡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

país de origen
570 millions of speakers

English

home country
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

होम देश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الوطن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

родная страна
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

país de origem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিজের দেশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pays d´origine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

negara asal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heimatland
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

本国
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

본국
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Negara asal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாய் நாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

देश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Anavatan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

paese di origine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ojczyzna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рідна країна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

țara de origine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πατρίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huis land
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hemland
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjemlandet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of home country

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME COUNTRY»

The term «home country» is very widely used and occupies the 16.652 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME COUNTRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «home country» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «home country» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about home country

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7 QUOTES WITH «HOME COUNTRY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word home country.
1
Joe Arpaio
I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'
2
Orlando Bloom
I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.
3
Michael Ondaatje
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.
4
Andrei Platonov
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
5
Agnieszka Radwanska
If somebody knows me, they know for sure I'm from Poland because I'm playing for my country every tournament, every match. I'm staying in my hometown and my home country because that is where I feel comfortable. I feel good there.
6
Jairam Ramesh
The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.
7
John Paul Stevens
To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution', an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOME COUNTRY»

Discover the use of home country in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to home country and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and ...
A demonstration of how a specific ideal of national heritage was consciously nurtured by England's elementary school system at the turn of the century.
Stephen J. Heathorn, 2000
2
Retrospect of Western Travel
A major issue for an MNC in staffing overseas facilities is whether to use a home- country national, a host-country national, or a third-country national. Home- country nationals are citizens of the country where the headquarters are located.
Harriet Martineau, 2000
3
Global Competitive Strategy
Does aircraft maker Embraer derive competitive advantages from its home country of Brazil in comparison with its Canadian rival Bombardier? The home country of the international business can exert a significant influence on the company's ...
Daniel F. Spulber, 2007
4
Managing Country Risk: A Practitioner’s Guide to Effective ...
The strategies, concepts, and tools outlined in the book provide you with the understanding needed to help your organization make more-informed decisions about how it does business abroad.
Daniel Wagner, 2012
5
Human Resource Management: Contemporary Issues, Challenges, ...
For example, in the ethnocentric corporation, "the prevailing attitude is that home country attitudes, management style, knowledge, evaluation criteria, and managers are superior to anything the host country might have to offer" ( Perlmutter, ...
Ronald R. Sims, 2007
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Business and Society: Ethics and Stakeholder Management
Should a business adhere to its home country's ethical standards for business practices or to the host country's ethical standards? There is no simple answer to this question. The diagram presented in Figure 10-5 frames the extreme decision  ...
Archie Carroll, Ann Buchholtz, 2008
7
Competitive Global Management - Principles and Strategies
The last, and possibly the most difficult, area of controversy between a MNC and its home country is taxation. Because a MNC receives its revenue from many different sources, appropriate taxes are difficult to assign. As a result of this, the U.S. ...
Abbass Alkhafaji, 1994
8
International Business: Theory and Practice
fective communication system is expected if a home country manager is selected. It is assumed that knowledge of and interpretation of senior headquarters policies could be more effectively accomplished by an expatriate selection. In the case ...
Mohammad Reza Vaghefi, Steven K. Paulson, William H. Tomlinson, 1991
9
The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political ...
KI134-Macrory KI134(V1)-20.tex December 22, 2004 11:32 FINANCIAL SERVICES 967 Host-country recognition of the adequacy of home-country prudential measures could be used to provide relief from host-country regulatory requirements ...
Arthur E. Appleton, Michael G. Plummer, 2007
10
International Business
A GLOBAL COMPANY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ITS HOME COUNTRY In addition to being a good guest while conducting business around the globe, a multinational enterprise has responsibilities in its home country. A home country is the ...
Les Dlabay, James Scott, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOME COUNTRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term home country is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Afghani migrant's 'choice to live' leads to life of peace - The Chronicle
LISTEN to Amir Adil talk about his home country of Afghanistan and you realise how hard it was to make the decision to flee. With a poet's ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
2
Foreign students learning how American democracy works | www …
The current state of American democracy is something Egyptian student Mahmoud Harb believes can eventually work in his home country ... «Hamilton Journal News, Jul 15»
3
For Former Jamaican Consul General, Cordlandt Manor Is Now Home
She is also what's called a diaspora strategist, working with Jamaicans living in the US who are looking to give back to their home country. They have access to ... «Westchester Magazine, Jul 15»
4
allAfrica.com: Cameroon: Harnessing Our Human Resources
The end results are that the home country that even subsidises the training of the inventor perishes in under development as her researchers ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
5
Women He's Undressed review – Orry-Kelly, an unsung Oscar …
... given Kelly's legacy as an artist who accrued significant fame and acclaim overseas but to this day remains little known in his home country. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
6
More millionaires leave China than any other country in the past 14 …
From the list of inflow in the report, Hong Kong, which is ranked the third most popular choice for second home country among millionaires, saw ... «Shanghaiist, Jul 15»
7
Home country: Watermelon and okra
“It's all watermelon's fault,” Steve said, shaking his head and sliding in to the philosophy counter. He nodded at Loretta while flipping his mug to ... «Messenger Index, Jul 15»
8
Home Country — Sometimes you have to hold fast to your opinion
Windy Wilson was on the prowl, this beautiful Independence Day morning, searching the neighborhood for something to do for others. «SnoValley Star, Jul 15»
9
The life of Greece's young: When $50000 of loans in America beats …
... take on $50,000 of loans from his family to come to study in America rather than bet his future on his home country of Greece ever being able ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
10
20 UN peacekeepers repatriated from CAR to home country
UNITED NATIONS, July 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic ( CAR), known ... «GlobalPost, Jul 15»

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