Noun
The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe motherland is an altar, not a platform. José Martí
We hear warmongering every day, every day we hear threats and attempts to scare us... We don't want war and never wanted, but at that time [i. e. during Nagorno-Karabakh war] we had to defend our Motherland. If the time comes again, this time our blow will be final and deadly. Serzh Sargsyan
Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that decision the aspiration of the Armenian people for the lost Motherland had obtained vital and legal force. Serzh Sargsyan
Tibet is a beautiful and richly endowed region of our great motherland. Hu Jintao
We shall fight to the last to free our Motherland. Ziaur Rahman
In other words, Islam can never allow a true Muslim to adopt India as his motherland and regard a Hindu as his kith and kin. That is probably the reason why Maulana Mahomed Ali, a great Indian but a true Muslim, preferred to be buried in Jerusalem rather than in India. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar