native ground
Where you're from
Native ground is the place where a person was born or raised, or where something originated.
The phrase emphasizes deep, formative connection to a location: After twenty years abroad, she returned to her native ground.
It can extend to any domain where someone feels thoroughly at home: Jazz is his native ground.
- homeOne's personal residence
- back homeReturned to one's residence
- birthplaceLocation of one's birth
- earthSoil or electrical grounding
- terra firmaSolid ground underfoot
ancestral · habitat · patrimony · home turf · neck of the woods · roots · blood and soil · customs · folklore · heartland · biome · belonging · soil · home base · heritage · tradition · sanctuary · territory
- homelandmotherland, fatherland, homeland, home country, birthplace
native groundforeign land
Another country
abroad · foreign country · overseas · terra incognita · new world
native groundexile
Banishment from homeland
diaspora · displacement · no man's land · uncharted territory · new home
native grounduncharted territory
Unmapped, unexplored area
enemy territory · no man's land · alien landscape · wilderness
native, ground, nativity, nation, national, nationality, nationalize, nationalization, nationalist