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English
Etymology
From home + town.
Pronunciation
Noun
hometown (plural hometowns)
- An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.
- (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
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
- 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 (gŕhangar)
- 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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