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hometown

hometown

251 1.0
The place where a person was born or lived for a long time
  • noun
  • /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
translation icon : ciudad natal
  • I often return to my hometown to visit my family and friends.
  • return to one's hometown
  • friends from their hometown
  • family from their hometown

I have no hometown, no mother tongue.

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Examples

  • Yes, a doctor in my hometown.

  • It was a community theater in my hometown where I grew up.

  • You guys, we're from the same hometown, so same small, small city.

  • Send this out to all the friends in my little hometown... up north of here up on the river.

  • But first, I went to my hometown, where I found out there was nothing for me there.

    Academic text (1995)
  • There was a march back in our hometown.

  • We know each other because we're from the same hometown.

  • Older students might discuss homelessness in their hometown and in America in general.

    Academic text (1993)
  • What do you miss about your hometown, Pittsburgh Dairy Queen?

  • This is the skyline of my hometown, New Orleans.

Surface Forms

hometown singular
hometowns plural

Morphology

hometown = home + town (transparent) = home + town

Meaning is directly the compound of 'home' + 'town' (the town that is one’s home or origin), which is easily inferred by learners.

Etymology

The word hometown is made of home and town, where home means 'the place you belong' and town means 'a local city or village'. So, a hometown is the town where you were born or grew up.