Definition of "hometown" []

• The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. (noun)

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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."
• "Yet what's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country."
• "What's happened to my hometown is a disgrace to the moderation that used to mark our entire part of the country."