homelands
- 1Plural of homeland.
The festival celebrated dances and songs from the performers' various homelands.
Decades of conflict had left several families scattered far from their homelands.
Note
The plural is regular, and it earns its place when each person in a group has a different place in mind: the performers' homelands are many countries, one apiece. Because a homeland can be where one was born, where one lives, or where a people traditionally belong, the plural can hold all three at once. In South African history it also names the areas set aside for black South Africans under apartheid, a historical use.
homelands is a form of homeland
homeland, noun: The country with which a person identifies as their own home. Full entry
- Forms
- homelandhomelands plural
- Spelling
- homeland → homelands: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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