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homeland

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home⋅land

  [hohm-land, -luhnd]
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–noun
1. one's native land.
2. a region created or considered as a state by or for a people of a particular ethnic origin: the Palestinian homeland.
3. any of the thirteen racially and ethnically based regions created in South Africa by the South African government as nominally independent tribal ministates to which blacks are assigned.
Origin:
1660–70; home + land
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home·land   (hōm'lānd')   
n.  

  1. One's native land.

  2. A state, region, or territory that is closely identified with a particular people or ethnic group.

  3. Any of the ten regions designated by South Africa in the 1970s as semiautonomous territorial states for the Black population. The Black homelands were dissolved and reincorporated into South Africa by the 1994 constitution.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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