hometown

as in country
the city or town where you were born or grew up She returned to her hometown to stay after college.

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Recent Examples of hometown After graduating with a degree in finance from Spring Hill College in his hometown of Mobile, Ala., in 2004, Eric Olen moved across the country to pursue his basketball coaching dreams. Tim Casey, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025 In Dnipropetrovsk, a ballistic missile hit a hotel in the city of Kryvyi Rih -- Zelenskyy's hometown. David Brennan, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2025 Pressing security needs in Ukraine Part of any security plan would be to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian attacks such as the one that hit Zelensky's hometown overnight. TIME, 6 Mar. 2025 Then, after two and a half years as a CBS sportscaster in his hometown Chicago, Berry returned to Miami in 1996 as the sports director and main sports anchor at WFOR-TV, which is owned and operated by CBS. Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hometown

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“Hometown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hometown. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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