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home town

home town is the alternative form of hometown.

Meaning of hometown

Noun

hometown (plural hometowns)

  1. An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
    • These vehicles convey Esther from her hometown hospital, then to a city hospital, and finally from the city hospital in another hearselike conveyance […]1994, Lindsey Tucker, Textual escap(e)ades
  2. (attributive) Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.
    • hometown decision, hometown verdict

Forms of home town

pluralhome towns

Questions about home town

What is home town the alternative form of?
Home town is the alternative form of hometown.

Words near home town in the dictionary

  1. home theaters
  2. home theatre
  3. home theatres
  4. home thrust
  5. home thrusts
  6. home town
  7. home towns
  8. home training
  9. home truth
  10. home truths
  11. home turf

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home town (page history and authors); hometown (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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