The motherland is the country of your birth, spoken of with warm devotion. Return to the motherland, defend the motherland, the call of the motherland.
Which of motherland and fatherland a language uses is a matter of tradition rather than logic: Russian and Indian English say motherland, and German and Dutch say fatherland. Both are words of a certain kind of patriotism and are rarely neutral.
1nounmotherlandThe country of your birth, spoken of with devotion.
“The old soldier spoke with tears in his eyes about defending the motherland.”
motherland is a country.
Mother plus land, recorded from 1711, on the model of the same compound in other languages.
From mother + land. From mother + land. 1711.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA