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I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.
Kenneth Lonergan

Meaning of "home town" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOME TOWN

home town  [həʊm taʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOME TOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Home town is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOME TOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of home town in the English dictionary

The definition of home town in the dictionary is the town where a person lives, or where they come from.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOME TOWN


Allentown
ˈælənˌtaʊn
Bridgetown
ˈbrɪdʒˌtaʊn
Charlottetown
ˈʃɑːlətˌtaʊn
Chinatown
ˈtʃaɪnəˌtaʊn
downtown
ˈdaʊnˈtaʊn
Freetown
ˈfriːˌtaʊn
Georgetown
ˈdʒɔːdʒˌtaʊn
Jamestown
ˈdʒeɪmzˌtaʊn
Kingstown
ˈkɪŋzˌtaʊn
midtown
ˈmɪdˌtaʊn
Motown
ˈməʊˌtaʊn
Newtown
ˈnjuːtaʊn
out-of-town
ˌaʊtəvˈtaʊn
Provincetown
ˈprɒvɪnsˌtaʊn
Queenstown
ˈkwiːnzˌtaʊn
small-town
ˌsmɔːlˈtaʊn
town
taʊn
uptown
ˈʌpˈtaʊn
Yorktown
ˈjɔːkˌtaʊn
Youngstown
ˈjʌŋzˌtaʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOME TOWN

home posting
home range
home rule
home run
home sales
Home Secretary
home shopping
home side
home State
home straight
home stretch
home teacher
home team
home territory
home time
home truth
home unit
home video
home visit
home waters

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOME TOWN

boom town
chief town
commuter town
company town
Cookstown
county town
garrison town
ghost town
go to town
hick town
man about town
market town
new town
on the town
one-horse town
post town
resort town
shanty town
small town
spa town
twin town

Synonyms and antonyms of home town in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «home town» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOME TOWN

Find out the translation of home town to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of home town from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «home town» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

家乡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ciudad natal
570 millions of speakers

English

home town
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घर शहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مسقط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

родной город
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cidade natal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হোম শহরে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ville natale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rumah bandar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Heimat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ホームタウン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

고향
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kutha rumiyin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quê nhà
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சொந்த ஊரான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूळ गाव
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Memleket
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

città natale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rodzinne miasto
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

рідне місто
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

orașul natal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πατρίδα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tuisdorp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hemstad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjemby
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of home town

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME TOWN»

The term «home town» is very widely used and occupies the 15.013 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOME TOWN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «home town» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «home town» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about home town

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10 QUOTES WITH «HOME TOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word home town.
1
Simon Armitage
Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.
2
John Caudwell
I might have made more money if I had outsourced to India, and I knew I'd find it easier to hire senior managers in London. But I wanted to be in Stoke. What could be more satisfying than creating work for 3,000 people in my home town?
3
Roman Coppola
Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.
4
Roberto Duran
Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.
5
Larry Hagman
When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.
6
Tommy Lee Jones
My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
7
Christian Kane
I went to Norman High then I walked across the street after that and went to college. That's my home town, that's where I'm from. Physically I'm a Texan, but I'm an Oklahoman.
8
James Howard Kunstler
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
9
Kenneth Lonergan
I'm always struck when I go somewhere I've never been before, especially if it's in my home town, by just how different the atmosphere can be, and how disorienting it can be - especially if there's any kind of trouble.
10
Peter MacKay
I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOME TOWN»

Discover the use of home town in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to home town and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Home Town
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there.
Tracy Kidder, 2012
2
Old Home Town
In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitchen dialogue.
Rose Wilder Lane, 1985
3
South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic ...
An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.
Thomas H. O'Connor, 1988
4
Home Town Memories of Grinnell, Iowa
This work is not intended to be an all inclusive, comprehensive, scholarly history with a preoccupation for exact dates, etc.
Dave Adkins, 2012
5
Home Town News : William Allen White and the Emporia ...
The book uses White's career to help us understand the role of journalism--and the journalist--in turn-of-the-century American culture.
Sally Foreman Griffith Assistant Professor of History Villanova University, 1989
6
Our Home Town Holmesville, Ohio
Chronicles Holmesville's history from events leading up to its formation in 1837 through the 1980s. This is my story about the people, businesses, and happenings that shaped the character of our town and made it home to me.
David A. Stallman, 2001
7
The Home Town Advantage: How to Defend Your Main Street ...
It is time to change the rules. From local zoning ordinances to federal antitrust policy, The Home Town Advantage provides a comprehensive guide to reviving the homegrown economy.
Stacy Mitchell, 2000
8
The Echo of Footsteps: Murder in My Home Town
This novel brings back Max & T.G. Schaffer and Chase & Shannon Westmore as well as NASCAR history at The Rock in Rockingham, N.C. The protagonist is a dance instructor named Megan Garrison.
Sylvia A. Witmore, 2010
9
Home-town brew: a novel
A small, family-run brewery provides the backdrop for the story of two very different women--Melissa Johnson, the much-resented heir to the Gutenbier brewery, and Alice Reinhart, a divorce+a7e who discovers that a teenage discretion has ...
Ellen Akins, 1998
10
My Home Town Girl: A Comedy with Music in Two Acts
JOHN HYAMS & LEILA MIPINTYRE “MY HOME TOWN GIRL” Book and Lyrics by PERRY J. KELLY 00., Inc., offers 1n FRANK M. STAMMERS Staged by Mr. STAMMERS CAST OF CHARACTERS '(In the order of their appearance) MADAME ...
Louis Achille Hirsch, Frank Stammers, 1916

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOME TOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term home town is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pete Rose, faults and all, still beloved in home town of Sedamsville …
Pete Rose, faults and all, still beloved in home town of Sedamsville. July 14, 2015 7:37 pm ET. SEDAMSVILLE, OHIO -- Out here, eight miles due west of the ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
2
Young mum with terminal cancer gets home town support …
SHE'S a young mother who is dying of incurable lung cancer, but she has been supported in her moment of greatest need by the township she ... «Toowoomba Chronicle, Jul 15»
3
Historic ferry to visit home town in Astoria, Ore. - Washington Times
ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) - A historic ferry that ran in Astoria from 1924 to 1966 is visiting its home town, and a local effort is under way to keep it ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
4
Harper Lee's home town celebrates her new novel
In the southern home town of author Harper Lee, a freight truck unloaded the first of 7,000 copies of Go Set a Watchman at a small bookshop ... «Times of Malta, Jul 15»
5
In Walker's home town, opinions on his presidential bid | GazetteXtra
Would you vote for Scott Walker for president? The Gazette walked the brick streets of his hometown to ask residents that very question. «Gazettextra, Jul 15»
6
Pete Rose, faults and all, still beloved in home town of Sedamsville
SEDAMSVILLE, CINCINNATI – Out here, eight miles due west of the Cincinnati business district, where the all-time hit king grew up in a modest ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
7
Ah-See's fighting words: 'nobody comes to my home town and …
WE MEET AGAIN: Arnel Tinampay (left) and Sam Ah-See (right) in the ring n the main event of the Black Money fight night in Dubbo in 2013. «Central Western Daily, Jul 15»
8
Photos: Harper Lee's home town
Photos from the home town of Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird." Lee will release her new novel, "Go Set a Watchman on July 14 ... «KSN-TV, Jul 15»
9
New York artist returns to Sunderland to get inspiration from home
Linda, who fuses fashion with fine art at her New York gallery, said it was a delight to create pieces for her home town. “I've always followed ... «Sunderland Echo, Jul 15»
10
Ask Molly Ringwald: I want to move on from my home town, but I'm …
Ask Molly Ringwald: I want to move on from my home town, but I'm scared .... will have changed since your friends moved from your home town. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

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