1 [usuallysing.] the country where a person was born:
Many refugees have been forced to flee their homeland.
2 [usuallypl.] (in the Republic of S Africa under the APARTHEID system in the past) one of the areas with some SELF-GOVERNMENT that were intended for a group of black African people to live in:
the Transkei homeland
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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