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

Yet these have decidedly not exclusively or even mostly targeted hardened criminals, as demonstrated by the saga of the family swept up in border czar Tom Homan’s own hometown upstate, or that 90% of the men sent to a Salvadoran prison don’t even have criminal records. —New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 11 Apr. 2025

According to their wedding website, the couple's ceremony was a black-tie formal event in Nashville — located about 200 miles northeast of Odum's hometown of Millington, Tenn. —Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025

One full-circle moment will be Master P’s return to the ESSENCE stage in his hometown. —Shelby Stewart, Essence, 10 Apr. 2025

So would the Texas native who shuffled through three programs, fleeing after building success for five to six seasons at each, be comfortable settling in at a program 1,300 miles north of his hometown? —Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2025

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