Definitions for homelands

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homelands home·land

Spelling: [hohm-land, -luh nd]

IPA: /ˈhoʊmˌlænd, -lənd/

Homelands is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 734 anagrams from letters in homelands (adehlmnos).

Definitions for homelands

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:
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 of homelands

First recorded in 1660-70; home + land

Examples for homelands

Young fellow only thirty, dying so far away from his homeland.

Might he not be the bearer of important and good news from the homeland?

This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.

I send them all my compliments from the homeland, and ask the reader, if he will, to do likewise.

Finally, John has been a consultant to homeland throughout this season.

I wish the book might be read by all the Christians in the homeland.

Of course there are times when actual CIA practice would have been different from that portrayed in homeland.

The homeland seemed strange at first, but they soon got used to things.

The US Department of homeland Security placed Saravia on it's wanted list when the former Modesto, CA., resident went into hiding.

Or will we simply see more senseless bloodshed and another generation of Palestinians defer their dreams of a homeland?