how to pronounce hometown

/ˈhoʊmˌtaʊn/

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hometown is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of hometown in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… to be sent to her hometown for burial 50 …”

meanings of hometown

noun:

Designating a decision or judgement that is biased, or perceived to be biased, in favour of local preference.
An individual's place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.

hometown frequency in english - C1 level of CEFR

the word hometown occurs in english on average 8.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics hometown can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that hometown can be often used in the following areas:

1) people, society, and culture;