hometown

See also: home town

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Etymology

From home +‎ town.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

hometown (plural hometowns)

  1. An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
    • 1994, Lindsey Tucker, Textual escap(e)ades:
      These vehicles convey Esther from her hometown hospital, then to a city hospital, and finally from the city hospital in another hearselike conveyance […]
    • 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom‎[1]:
      “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”
    • 2021 April 10, AJ Willingham, “Female truckers have become TikTok influencers, and they’re changing the transportation game”, in CNN‎[2]:
      Candace Rivers’ involvement with trucking began, fittingly, on Interstate 20 not far from her hometown of Oxford, Alabama.
  2. (attributive) Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.
    hometown decision, hometown verdict

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