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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 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.