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mother country

NOUN
  1. the country where you were born

How To Use mother country In A Sentence

  • Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
  • Then with the separation of Mexico and the other American colonies from Spain a more marked change was brought about in that direct communication was established with the mother country, and the absolutism of the hagiarchy first questioned by the numbers of The Social Cancer
  • The Navigation Act of the Mother Country of 1632 required that all trade from the colony be carried in English bottoms, and England prohibited manufacturing in the colony. President for the Country
  • On the other hand, Canada enjoys an advantage, as all the Dominions do, which the Mother Country does not possess, but which now the Mother Country very much envies, that is, of being a long distance from Europe and I am not at all sure that the Dominions would necessarily be wise-it is not for me to express an opinion upon this-at least it is conceivable that a Dominion might be wise in refusing to adhere to the Locarno agreement. Certain Phases of the Empire
  • However from this disaster was born the image of the Aussie Digger, a brave and laconic battler, betrayed by the mother country but facing impossible odds with humour, courage and mateship.
  • One of the grandest things about these dependencies is that we are so busy quarrelling among ourselves that we have no time to abuse the Mother Country. Australia and Her Relations to the British Empire
  • The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
  • The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
  • With all its merits, there are those who have thought that there was one thing in the declaration to be regretted; and that is, the asperity and anger with which it speaks of the person of the king; the industrious ability with which it accumulates and charges upon him all the injuries which the colonies had suffered from the mother country. Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
  • Even though there are some who may feel sympathetic with the philosophy scholar, it is generally agreed that the scope of his subversive activities against his mother country are too grave to be exonerated.
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