hometown

[hohm-toun]

noun

1. the town or city in which a person lives or was born, or from which a person comes.

adjective

1. of or relating to a hometown.

   a hometown welcome.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hometown¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; home + town

Example Sentences

By 6 p.m. on Monday, she had hopped into her car and departed from her hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

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The incursion of armed federal immigration agents in his beloved hometown of Los Angeles shocked Kent Wong.

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Training on his hometown’s sand dunes and in the Pacific Northwest’s windswept rains, Prefontaine broke national records at Marshfield High School and then at the University of Oregon.

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From now on, Schlittler will be remembered in his hometown for what he did on Thursday night—not for the Red Sox, but against them.

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Nearby is poetry written in Anne’s hand, as well as postcards from Anne and her sister, Margot, to a neighbor in their former hometown of Frankfurt.

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