Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mother country

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.04 in modern English

Syllables: moth-er -coun-try
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland; homeland.

Inflected Forms

mother countries (plural)

Synonyms

fatherland homeland motherland country of origin native land

Questions

What does mother country mean?: The country in which a person (or group of people) was born; motherland; homeland.

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