Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has his principal residence.
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- noun An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence
Etymologies
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Examples
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What's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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And if there are residual cracks in Adele's pipes, you can't hear them: the word "hometown" easily wraps itself around the venue's lofting ironwork.
Adele – review 2011
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Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country.
Jay Michaelson: The End of Rockefeller Republicanism: Dispatch From Putnam County, New York Jay Michaelson 2010
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Olivia discovers that her hometown is a hotbed of racist hatred.
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What's fairly certain is that Akon was born in St. Louis, Mo., sometime in the past 40 years and spent much of his childhood in the West African country of Senegal, which he describes as his "hometown."
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I'm a native Seattleite, and yes, as a matter of fact, I do think my hometown is the center of the universe, but I know there are votes in a lot of corners that a lot of campaigns have overlooked over the years.
Archive 2004-01-01 2004
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