Patrie (noun) (Scots)
pat-ree
A person’s native land
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Arthur Hall (1539–1605), translator and politician. From Middle French patrie native country from classical Latin patria.
Example sentences
“He went back to his patrie, homesick and broke.”
Medley (noun) med-lee a mixture, especially of heterogeneous elements; hodgepodge; jumble. First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English noun and adjective medle(e), medlei(e), maedlai(e) “battle, war, quarrel; mixture, balanced mixture,” from…
