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Definition of Mother country
1. Noun. The country where you were born.
Generic synonyms: Country, Land, State
Specialized synonyms: Old Country
Definition of Mother country
1. Noun. The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland, homeland ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mother Country
Literary usage of Mother country
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Even with all the experience of the century which followed, the relations between
a mother country and her colonies arc not easy to arrange. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"mother country.—TOM NODDY'S LAMENT. mother country. Он what is that country, And
where can it be, Not mine own country, But dearer far to me ? ..."
3. Principles of political economy and taxation by David Ricardo (1919)
"It may, I think, be doubted whether a mother country may not sometimes be benefited
by the restraints to which she subjects her colonial possessions. ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1848)
"The imports from colonies consist of those commodities which either cannot be
produced in the mother country, or which cannot be produced in sufficient ..."
5. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The rule of the mother- country over colonies. chief State, and the independence
of the separate States or dependencies. With regard to this point we may ..."
6. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE mother country [1775] WE have an old mother that peevish is grown; She snubs
us like children that scarce walk alone; She forgets we're grown up and ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1848)
"But the mother country also imported those things which she produced, ...
The mother country has then a double advantage from the colony. ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Even with all the experience of the century which followed, the relations between
a mother country and her colonies arc not easy to arrange. ..."
9. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"mother country.—TOM NODDY'S LAMENT. mother country. Он what is that country, And
where can it be, Not mine own country, But dearer far to me ? ..."
10. Principles of political economy and taxation by David Ricardo (1919)
"It may, I think, be doubted whether a mother country may not sometimes be benefited
by the restraints to which she subjects her colonial possessions. ..."
11. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1848)
"The imports from colonies consist of those commodities which either cannot be
produced in the mother country, or which cannot be produced in sufficient ..."
12. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The rule of the mother- country over colonies. chief State, and the independence
of the separate States or dependencies. With regard to this point we may ..."
13. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE mother country [1775] WE have an old mother that peevish is grown; She snubs
us like children that scarce walk alone; She forgets we're grown up and ..."
14. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1848)
"But the mother country also imported those things which she produced, ...
The mother country has then a double advantage from the colony. ..."
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