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means The country where you (or your ancestors) were born, especially when spoken of with deep emotional or patriotic attachment.

from A straightforward compound of 'mother' and 'land,' built on the ancient metaphor of the homeland as a nurturing female figure — a pattern echoed across many languages (think Russian 'Rodina-mat', German 'Vaterland' taking the paternal route instead). English 'motherland' emerged as this kind of nation-as-parent imagery became useful for stirring national feeling, particularly in 19th-century colonial and nationalist rhetoric, where the 'mother country' was invoked to bind people to a homeland or empire.