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.
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Nasha Smith, People.com, 7 Dec. 2024
Now, the duo will perform three concerts in the Compton rapper’s hometown and two on the turf of his biggest rap rival Drake.
—Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Four more locations shuttered in the chain's hometown of Tucson.
—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 6 Dec. 2024
Video Ad Feedback Arseny Turbin, then 15, stages a solo protest in June last year in his hometown of Livny.
—Anna Chernova, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
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hometown
noun
home·town
-ˈtau̇n
: the city or town where one was born or grew up
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