hometown

noun

home·​town ˈhōm-ˈtau̇n 

often attributive

: the city or town where one was born or grew up

also : the place of one's principal residence

Examples of hometown in a Sentence

She returned to her hometown to stay after college.

Recent Examples on the Web

The hometown crowd roared as Clark emerged alongside Wallen, but the appearance immediately dragged her back into the cultural and racial debates that had followed her since entering the WNBA. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026

Her mother had died in her hometown on a remote mountainside in what is now Slovenia. — Joe Kovac, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026

He was arrested about 20 miles south of his hometown in East Palestine, Ohio, where police were conducting a prostitution sting at a mobile home park. — Erick Mendoza, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026

There was a tinge of hometown bias to the honorific, but not enough to call it hyperbole. — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hometown

• chinatown
• tumbledown
• adown
• blowdown
• breakdown
• countdown
• crackdown
• crosstown
• downtown
• drawdown
• dropdown
• facedown

Kids Definition

hometown

noun

home·​town -ˈtau̇n 

: the city or town where one was born or grew up