Homelander
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person from one's homeland.
"Both Yoruba and European officials see themselves as "expatriates," persons who are living away from home among an alien people and are obliged ultimately to return to their homeland. To maintain such an image and to complete it, a man should marry a homelander rather than the local person in the foreign area."
Example
More examples"Both Yoruba and European officials see themselves as "expatriates," persons who are living away from home among an alien people and are obliged ultimately to return to their homeland. To maintain such an image and to complete it, a man should marry a homelander rather than the local person in the foreign area."
Etymology
From homeland + -er.
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