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Plural of hometown

regular plural

The plural of hometown is hometowns.

Forms of hometown

Singularhometown /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/
Pluralhometowns
Countablecountable

Hometowns in a sentence

  • 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.2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
  • This summer, Yining, a city in the Xinjiang region of far-western China, celebrated a boom of Chinese tourists seeking a sunny respite from Covid worries in their hometowns.2022 September 11, Chris Buckley, “Just Bread and Noodles: China’s Covid Lockdown Distress Hits Xinjiang”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry weekslong

Meaning of hometown

  1. noun An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
  2. noun Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.

Full definition of hometown

Questions about the plural of hometown

What is the plural of hometown?
The plural of hometown is hometowns.
Is hometown countable?
Hometown is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hometown (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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