different between homeland vs deracinate

English

Etymology

home +? land

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: home?land

Noun

homeland (plural homelands)

1. The country that one regards as home.
2. One's country of residence.
3. One's country of birth.
4. The traditional territory of an ethnic group.
5. (South Africa, historical) An area set aside for black South Africans under the policy of apartheid.

   Synonym: bantustan

Hypernyms

• land

Translations

References

• homeland (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• homeland on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Holdeman

English

Etymology

Calque of French déraciner, from racine (“root”), from Latin radix, radicis (“root”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???æs?ne?t/, /d???æs?ne?t/

Verb

deracinate (third-person singular simple present deracinates, present participle deracinating, simple past and past participle deracinated)

1. To pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
   • 1602, Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

     Divert and crack, rend and deracinate,

     The unity and married calm of states

     Quite from their fixture!

   • 1910, G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World, chapter 1.7

     The State has no tool delicate enough to deracinate the rooted habits and tangled affections of the family; the two sexes, whether happy or unhappy, are glued together too tightly for us to get the blade of a legal penknife in between them.

2. To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
   • 1986 Robert McCrum, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., p328:

     Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.

Translations

Anagrams

• ecardinate