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Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
George III

Meaning of "mother country" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MOTHER COUNTRY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOTHER COUNTRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mother 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 MOTHER COUNTRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mother Country

Mother Country is a novel by Libby Purves about a young American computer expert who goes in search of the relatives of his biological father, a teenage heroin addict in 1970s London when she had him who was pronounced an unfit mother and who died soon after giving birth to him. Raised by his paternal grandparents, the young man has never been to England again after being carried off to the United States by his father, who also died young. Mother Country explores the culture clash between the two nations, drug addiction and rehabilitation, family secrets, and the will to move on in life.

Definition of mother country in the English dictionary

The definition of mother country in the dictionary is the original country of colonists or settlers.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOTHER COUNTRY

mother abbess
Mother Carey´s chicken
Mother Church
Mother City
mother craft
Mother Earth
Mother Goose
mother hen
Mother Hubbard
mother lode
mother love
Mother Nature
Mother of God
Mother of Parliaments
Mother of Satan
mother of the chapel
mother of vinegar
mother ship
Mother Shipton
mother superior

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOTHER COUNTRY

back-country
country
cross-country
developing country
entry
go to the country
high country
hill country
home country
host country
New Country
North 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 mother country in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mother country» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOTHER COUNTRY

Find out the translation of mother country to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mother 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 «mother country» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

祖国
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

madre patria
570 millions of speakers

English

mother country
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

माँ देश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البلد الأم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

метрополия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pátria
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মাতৃভূমি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mère-patrie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ibu negara
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heimat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

母国
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

어머니 의 나라
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ibu negara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước mẹ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தாய் நாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आई देशातील
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Anavatan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

madrepatria
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

matka kraj
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

метрополія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

țara-mamă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Η μητέρα χώρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moeder land
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

moderlandet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

moderlandet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mother country

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOTHER COUNTRY»

The term «mother country» is normally little used and occupies the 108.597 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOTHER COUNTRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mother country» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mother 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 mother country

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4 QUOTES WITH «MOTHER COUNTRY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mother country.
1
John Acton
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
2
Richard V. Allen
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
3
George III
Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.
4
Fred Hampton
A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOTHER COUNTRY»

Discover the use of mother country in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mother country and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mother Country
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one ...
Marilynne Robinson, 2011
2
Beyond the mother country: West Indians and the Notting Hill ...
This book presents the chapters - 'Exodus to the Mother Country'; 'An expendable commodity'; 'No coloureds, no Irish, no dogs'; 'From Rachman to ruin'; 'Keeping Britain white'; 'The beginning of anger'; 'Riot'; 'Notting Hill to Westminster' ...
Edward Pilkington, 1988
3
The mother country: or, The spade, the wastes, and the ...
Sidney Smith (phrenologist.) is not ii foot of waste land in the Engandine, the lowest point of which is not much lower than the top of Snowdon. Wherever grass will grow, there it is ; wherever a rock will bear a blade, verdure is seen upon it ...
Sidney Smith (phrenologist.), 1849
4
America's True Mother Country?: Images of the Dutch in the ...
This study analyzes American images of the Dutch since the second half of the 19th century.
G.H. Joost Baarssen, 2014
5
Washington and the Mother Country; An Address
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Monson Edmund John, 2009
6
Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women
I argue that the relationship is one not just between the mother and the mother's land, and by extension the Motherland, but also includes the mother country. Therefore, this relationship is a trichotomous one that, first, illuminates the notion of a ...
Simone A. James Alexander, 2001
7
A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ...
others, to supply the colonial markets in preference to every one else- But all attempts to establish a monopoly In favour of the mother country, by prohibiting the importation of the produce of other nations into the colony, are necessarily either ...
William Thomas Brande, 1842
8
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
The mother-country may oblige the colony to purchase from her every thing which it wants ; and this monopoly, or exclusive privilege, enables the producers in the mother-country to make the planters pay more than the value for their goods.
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1816
9
The Government and the Currency
Would not the colony, having no other market but that of the mother country, and few other employments for labor and capital (it may be) than those which minister to her wants, and are dependent for their continuance upon the supply of her ...
Henry Middleton, 1850
10
The English Gentleman Merchant at Work: Madras and the City ...
Successful merchants would inspire young men in the mother country to go abroad, thus securing fresh blood for the diaspora. For a newly-arrived merchant, the foreign and exotic environment he was confronted with was mixed with ...
Søren Mentz, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOTHER COUNTRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mother country is used in the context of the following news items.
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Off the Eaten Path
Problem is, California beaches just don't have the variety of rocks you find in Montauk, N.Y., the mother country out on Long Island's East End. «North Bay Bohemian, Jul 15»
2
Alternate headquarters of our political parties
In fact, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement's permanent headquarter is in London, thousands of miles away from mother country. Even the Party ... «Pakistan Observer, Jul 15»
3
Kimbrough: Try meatless meals during summer heat wave
Created in Italy, granita (known as granita siciliana in the mother country) is a simple dessert made of water, sugar and a specific fruit or ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
4
Hellenic Heart beats in Melbourne
At this difficult time for the mother country, the Greek Australian community in Victoria is again showing its practical support. Hellenic Heart is a ... «Neos Kosmos, Jul 15»
5
Pew: Europeans not ready to fight and die for NATO allies
59% of the Russians are ready to defend their mother country, taking up arms, according to the Gallup poll. The figures are also quite higher ... «Pravda, Jul 15»
6
Premier heads to Bermuda for OT meeting
... expected to touch upon political and constitutional issues, particularly the relationship with the mother country. The idea is to exchange those ... «The Cayman Reporter, Jul 15»
7
Australian Dance Theatre celebrates 50th anniversary
... at the time, we were finally beginning to break with that whole colonial connection to the mother country.” From the outset, Dalman saw dance ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
8
Saluting the 'British'
... who made a name in British music, went to the UK in the 1950s when there was a wave of West Indian migration to the then Mother Country. «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
9
'Doing' for the helplessly affluent
... England as a 21-year-old, that the "Mother Country" would keep calling him back. Newly married in the 1980s, Rodney took his wife, Alethea, ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
10
Causing a stir: Storm in a teacup exhibition traces our love affair with …
... value, she says, has made it synonymous not only with respectability and good breeding, but with what we then called the Mother Country. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mother country [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mother-country>. May 2024 ».
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