Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of homelands Hawaii's governor and attorney general vowed to fight the lawsuit against Hawaiian homelands eligibility. —

ABC News, 3 June 2026 The attacks Pontiac led in 1763—most of them successful-showed the hopes that thousands of people had to force the British out of their beloved homelands. —

Literary Hub, 26 May 2026 This was all against the backdrop of a concerted effort to drive us from our homelands. —

Shaun Chapoose, Denver Post, 20 May 2026 The Greater Chaco Cultural Landscape, which spans New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah, is the ancestral homelands of the Pueblo and Hopi. —

Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 20 May 2026 Sites from Alabama to California and the Four Corners trace stories of Black freedom, Japanese American incarceration, Indigenous homelands, immigrant journeys and early quests for religious and women’s rights. —

Darlene Superville, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026 That means many people from both countries will have to leave the United States and possibly return to homelands where their lives are in danger. —

Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026 Even the western coastal homelands of Assad and his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, largely acquiesced to Sharaa's leadership. —

Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 Given ongoing conflicts and political instability in Ukraine, Haiti, Venezuela, and Nicaragua, forcing migrants to return to their homelands engulfed in war or violence fails to observe these international legal norms and could place them in immediate danger. —

Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for homelands

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Israel's campaign in Lebanon has killed thousands of people and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, according to Reuters.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 8 June 2026
The sale price is typical of the San Francisco housing market where bidding wars often lead to offers of millions more than the asking price in a city with a limited supply of single-family homes.

— Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 7 June 2026