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say it: HOHM-town
hometown is a noun meaning "the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/ — HOHM-town. It carries one recorded sense.
the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence
“he never went back to his hometown again”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hometown come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.