mother country in English

noun
1
a country in relation to its colonies.
the bicentennial of our separation from the mother country
noun

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1. Colonisation takes place when groups of people move from their mother country to a colony in order to settle there

2. The Spanish founding of San Francisco and the British colonies' declaration of independence from the mother country were Coetaneous events that occurred on opposite ends of the continent: 10

3. Often, when the reverence for the temple and the holy city was most strongly emphasized, intense contempt might be manifested for those who were at the moment the holders of the supreme authority in the mother-country.”

4. The Spanish founding of San Francisco and the British colonies' declaration of independence from the mother country were Coetaneous events that occurred on opposite ends of the continent First Known Use of Coetaneous 1608, in the meaning defined above History and Etymology for Coetaneous