Meaning of parentland | Babel Free

Definitions

The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.

Examples

“The actual parentland of the Aryans, not the one confused with the paradise, is identified, with reason, with Atropatene (Atropatkan, Azerbaijan) on the south-west coast of the Caspian.”

“Perhaps the culture of New Zealand and Australia is more like that in the parentland than that in any other of the new Europes, because these settlements are isolated from other large masses of Europeans.”

“What is more fascinating is the retention in some places of customs long disappeared from their European parentland – like the highlanders of the Ozark Mountains clinging to the date of Old Christmas Day in January which disappeared in England in the eighteenth century;[…].”

“For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.”

“Barred from citizenship and from comfortable participation in the life of the dominant culture, the issei gathered in communities where they maintained the culture of their parentland and largely spoke Japanese.”

“Neither the parentland nor the nature of their common boundary is known for these highly contrasting terranes.”

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