Synonyms of homelands

homelands

noun

plural of homeland

as in homes

the land of one's birth, residence, or citizenship

tries to return every year to Italy, her homeland for the first two decades of her life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• homes
• countries
• motherlands
• sods
• fatherlands
• mother countries
• communities
• neighborhoods
• old countries

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of homelands

In less than a decade, wildfires destroyed forests across 95% of the tribe’s homelands. — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

Still, the majority of workers in the Gulf countries have chosen to stay given the absence of better economic opportunities in their homelands. — Sarah Yerkes, Time, 10 July 2026

In the 1700s, when West Africans were shackled and shipped to the South Carolina–Georgia seaboard, some were forced to work in rice paddies, in cotton fields, and on indigo plantations, where the moist climate resembled that of their homelands. — Jeanne Malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

In the midst of turmoil and war between his two homelands, one young Iranian business owner living in Los Angeles is working to merge history with a cultural movement as more Iranian Americans find an appetite for learning more about their culture and history. — Rudabeh Shahbazi, CBS News, 22 June 2026

The Tohono O’odham have continued to welcome outsiders, including the federal government, even when those outsiders have sought to exert further control over the O’odham’s ancestral homelands. — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026

Best friends Fernando Delgado and Josh Lee are still riding the high of seeing both their homelands — Mexico and South Korea — win their opening matches at the 2026 World Cup. — Juliana Kim, NPR, 17 June 2026

The preserve is also part of the Shoshone-Bannock peoples’ ancestral homelands, and has served as a NASA research site. — Alia Beard Rau, USA Today, 10 June 2026

One of those languages, myaamiaataweenki, is spoken by the Miami, who count what's now the Hoosier state among their homelands. — Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 8 June 2026