hometown

noun, often attributive home·town \ ˈhōm-ˈtau̇n \

Updated on: 8 Apr 2018

Definition of hometown

: the city or town where one was born or grew up; also : the place of one's principal residence

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Examples of hometown in a Sentence

She returned to her hometown to stay after college.

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On his first day at the Adelanto Detention Facility, Avelica pictured his future: back in his hometown of San Juan de Abajo in the coastal state of Nayarit, sitting alone, despondent, on a rustic bench outside his late parents’ empty brick house.

— andrea castillo, www.latimes.com, "How one L.A. father’s arrest put an entire neighborhood on edge," 5 Apr. 2018
Holdsworth has spent the past five years working with geologists at Northumbria University, in his hometown of Newcastle, to develop a new way of visualizing these rivers of slow-moving ice.

— michael hardy, WIRED, "You've Never Seen the Alps Like This Before," 2 Apr. 2018
While traveling to school by bus in October 2012, she was shot in the head in retaliation for her campaign for girls to be given equal education rights in the conservative country, defying threats from militants in her hometown of Mingora.

— kamran haider, Bloomberg.com, "Nobel Winner Malala Yousafzai Visits Pakistan for First Time Since Attack," 29 Mar. 2018
Taylor, who married Laughlin in his hometown of Milwaukee, was 85.

— chris foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Delores Taylor, wife and 'Billy Jack' filmmaking partner of Tom Laughlin, dies at 85," 28 Mar. 2018
The Arnolds’ political donations skew leftward — making them an outlier among the richest of the rich in their hometown of Houston.

— rebecca robbins, STAT, "A billionaire couple is pumping money into the drug pricing debate. Can they loosen pharma’s grip?," 26 Mar. 2018
The South Florida sports community got a moment of excitement Thursday when news came out that hometown hero Frank Gore will be signing a one-year deal to play with the Miami Dolphins.

— jordan mcpherson, miamiherald, "What are the Dolphins getting in Frank Gore? Allow one of his teammates to tell you | Miami Herald," 23 Mar. 2018
Benson's group bought the team for $70 million on May 31, 1985, and the man once labeled a tire-kicker was hailed as a hometown hero.

— jeff duncan, NOLA.com, "Tom Benson, New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner and self-made billionaire, dies at 90," 15 Mar. 2018
McCane, 22, defeated hometown hero Sharaya Moreu by split decision.

— branson wright, cleveland.com, "Cleveland's Morelle McCane wins Western Qualifier: Boxing Report 2018 (photos)," 13 Mar. 2018

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First Known Use of hometown

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Definition of hometown for English Language Learners

: the city or town where you were born or grew up

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hometown

noun home·town \ ˈhōm-ˈtau̇n \

Definition of hometown for Students

: the city or town where a person was born or grew up

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