hometown

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence

From home + town.

He hated to mention this, but people were even talking of closing certain Japanese-operated factories already in place, such as that big one in Elmira, Jack's hometown, and moving them south. — The Samurai Strategy, Thomas Hoover
Many of our sailors swore that the monster couldn’t negotiate this passageway simply because “he’s too big for it!” Near three o’clock in the afternoon on July 6, fifteen miles south of shore, the Abraham Lincoln doubled that solitary islet at the tip of the South American continent, that stray rock Dutch seamen had named Cape Horn after their hometown of Hoorn. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

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