hometown

See also: home town

English

Alternative forms

• home town

Etymology

From home +‎ town.

Pronunciation

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Noun

hometown (plural hometowns)

1. An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
   • 1994, Lindsey Tucker, Textual escap(e)ades:

     These vehicles convey Esther from her hometown hospital, then to a city hospital, and finally from the city hospital in another hearselike conveyance […]

   • 2003, Cory Doctorow, chapter 6, in Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom‎^[1]:

     “It’s not good stewardship. 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. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”

2. (attributive) Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.

   hometown decision, hometown verdict

Derived terms

• hometowner
• hometownish

Translations

place of birth or residence

• Arabic: مَسْقَط اَلرَّأْس m (masqaṭ ar-raʔs), وَطَن الأُمّ m (waṭan al-ʔumm), بَلْدَةْ اَلْمَسْكَن f (baldat al-maskan), مَسْقَط (ar) m (masqaṭ)
• Belarusian: ро́дны го́рад m (ródny hórad)
• Bengali: দেশের বাড়ি (deśer baṛi)
• Bikol Central: dagang tinubuan
• Bulgarian: ро́ден град m (róden grad)
• Burmese: ဇာတိမြို့ (jati.mrui.)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家鄉 / 家乡 (zh) (jiāxiāng), (formal) 故鄉 / 故乡 (zh) (gùxiāng), 老家 (zh) (lǎojiā)

• Czech: rodné město n
• Danish: hjemby c
• Dutch: vaderstad (nl) m or f, geboorteplaats (birth), woonplaats (residence)
• Esperanto: hejmurbo, patrurbo
• Estonian: kodulinn
• Finnish: kotipaikka (fi), kotikaupunki (fi), kotikylä (fi)
• French: ville natale f
• Galician: cidade natal f
• German: Heimat (de) f, Heimatort (de) f
• Hebrew: עיר מגורים f (ir m'gurim)
• Hindi: गृहनगर m (gŕhnagar)
• Hungarian: szülőváros (hu)
• Indonesian: kampung halaman (id)
• Italian: città di origine f
• Japanese: 故郷 (ja) (ふるさと, furusato), 故郷 (ja) (こきょう, kokyō)
• Korean: 고향(故鄕) (ko) (gohyang)
• Latin: patria (la) f
• Macedonian: роден град m (roden grad)
• Manx: balley dooghys m
• Ngarrindjeri: ngatjurtul
• Persian: زادگاه (fa) (zâd-gâh)
• Polish: rodzinne miasto n, rodzinne miasteczko n, rodzinna miejscowość f
• Portuguese: cidade natal f
• Russian: родно́й го́род m (rodnój górod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: родно место n, родно мјесто n, родни град m

  Roman: rodno mesto n, rodno mjesto n, rodni grad m

• Slovak: rodné mesto n
• Slovene: rojstno mesto n
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} pueblo natal m, ^{(please verify)} ciudad de orígen f, patria chica
• Swedish: hemstad (sv)
• Telugu: స్వగ్రామం (svagrāmaṁ)
• Thai: บ้านเกิด (bâan gèrt)
• Turkish: yurt (tr), memleket (tr)
• Ukrainian: рі́дне мі́сто n (rídne místo)
• Urdu: آبائی شہر m (ābāī śahr)
• Uyghur: يۇرت (yurt)
• Vietnamese: quê hương (vi), cố hương (vi) (故鄉)
• Yiddish: היימשטאָט (heymshtot)

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