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Definition: Hometown |
HometownNoun1. The town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Hometown is a city located in Cook County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 4,467.Geography
Hometown is located at 41°43'50" North, 87°43'55" West (41.730533, -87.731982)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 4,467 people, 1,895 households, and 1,171 families residing in the city. The population density is 3,593.2/km² (9,354.6/mi²). There are 1,938 housing units at an average density of 1,558.9/km² (4,058.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.29% White, 0.00% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.29% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 1.01% from other races, and 1.23% from two or more races. 3.83% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 1,895 households out of which 27.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% are married couples living together, 15.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% are non-families. 35.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 20.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.36 and the average family size is 3.10. In the city the population is spread out with 23.7% under the age of 18, 7.5% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 19.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 82.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 77.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $39,512, and the median income for a family is $49,911. Males have a median income of $39,799 versus $28,750 for females. The per capita income for the city is $19,149. 3.0% of the population and 1.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.5% are under the age of 18 and 4.3% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hometown, Illinois."
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Hometown is a town located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,399.Geography
Hometown is located at 40°49'20" North, 75°59'2" West (40.822308, -75.983928)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.1 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.1 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 1,399 people, 575 households, and 434 families residing in the town. The population density is 272.8/km² (706.3/mi²). There are 600 housing units at an average density of 117.0/km² (302.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.43% White, 0.43% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.79% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.07% from other races, and 0.29% from two or more races. 0.50% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 575 households out of which 24.5% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.0% are married couples living together, 4.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.5% are non-families. 22.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.9% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.43 and the average family size is 2.85. In the town the population is spread out with 19.4% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 22.9% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 22.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 47 years. For every 100 females there are 92.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.1 males. The median income for a household in the town is $40,568, and the median income for a family is $50,242. Males have a median income of $41,528 versus $30,536 for females. The per capita income for the town is $19,831. 4.5% of the population and 1.6% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 8.2% are under the age of 18 and 6.1% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hometown, Pennsylvania."
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Small riverside community located on Route 62 in Putnam County, WV.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hometown, West Virginia."
Crosswords: Hometown |
| English words defined with "hometown": homeboy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | My hometown, my hometown, my hometown (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) This is your hometown (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Troubled times had come to my hometown (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Your hometown, your hometown, your hometown, your hometown (MY HOMETOWN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Got in a little hometown jam (BORN IN THE U.S.A.; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hometown Girl (1948) My Hometown (1996) Hometown Honeys 5 (1993) Voice From Hometown (1983) The Hometown (1979) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Army Sgt. Chris Seaton videotapes a holiday greeting for release to hometown television and cable outlets across the United States. Seaton's Army/Air Force Hometown News Team recorded more than 3,400 holiday greetings during visits to Army and Air Force i. |  | With his Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter, while visiting his hometown, Newton, Iowa, while en route from Lakehurst, New Jersey, to Moffett Field, California, in October 1933. The man in the plane's cockpit is Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class Glowacki. Both men, and the aircraft, were part of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) heavier-than-air group. Macon was also en route to Moffett Field, but her "Sparrowhawks" were making the trip independently. Credit: NAVY. |
 | War production drive. Anthracite rallies. Nurse Anne Bernatitus spoke to anthracite miners on the crucial need for more coal production, at the anthracite rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, her hometown. The rally was one of four held in Eastern Pennsyl. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Civil Liberties | Cuba | State security also instructed businesses in his hometown not to permit him to use their telephones. (references) |
Human Rights | Nigeria | He remained restricted to his hometown in Kano State at year's end. (references) |
Political Rights | Iraq | Most important officials either are members of Saddam Hussein's family or are family allies from his hometown of Tikrit. (references) |
Travel | Mexico | Ask about your counterpart's hometown, university, personal interests including sports, and family. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Hometown" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hometown" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 47 | 49,740 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Hometown Auto Retailers, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Hometown, IL (city, FIPS 35866) 2. Hometown, PA (CDP, FIPS 35448) |
Expression using "hometown": adopted hometown. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
aol hometown | 2,536 | hometown boy | 32 |
hometown | 456 | computing hometown | 28 |
hometown buffet | 403 | amateur hometown karups | 24 |
hometown.com our | 197 | hometown hotties maxim | 24 |
hometown.com our patent.htm publisher | 176 | hometown honeys | 23 |
hometown realty | 115 | aol designer easy hometown | 22 |
hometown girl | 70 | health hometown | 20 |
aol.com hometown | 64 | amateur hometown | 20 |
hometown news | 61 | heros hometown lottery | 19 |
hometown hotties | 60 | fhm hometown honeys | 18 |
hero hometown lottery | 47 | hometown inn | 17 |
hometown annapolis | 44 | equity hometown mortgage | 17 |
hometown favorite | 44 | buffett hometown | 17 |
hometown mortgage | 43 | hometown suite | 16 |
america hometown | 42 | hometown sports | 15 |
hometown il | 42 | hometown usa | 15 |
hometown bank | 38 | hometown rental | 15 |
hometown newspaper | 35 | hometown publication | 14 |
hometown hero | 35 | aol hometown home page | 13 |
aol hometown page | 34 | hometown legend | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hometown"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | منشأ (birth, birthplace, ensuing, fountainhead, origin, provenance, rise, source). (various references) | |
Chinese | 故乡, 家鄉 (native place). (various references) | |
German | Vaterstadt, Heimatsort. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szülőváros (home town). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 在郷 (rural districts), 国許 (native place), 国元 (native place). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くにもと (native place), ざいきょう (being in Tokyo, rural districts), ざい"う (crime, iniquity, rural districts, sin). (various references) | |
Korean | 향. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ometownhay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cidade natal adotada (adopted hometown). (various references) | |
Russian | родной город (home town). (various references) | |
Thai | บ้านเ"ิม. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hometown": hometowns. (additional references) | |
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"Hometown" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Holetown, Homanton, homedown. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hometown" (pronounced hō"mtou'n) |
| 4 | -m t ou' n | Boomtown. |
| 3 | -t ou' n | crosstown, midtown, shantytown. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: townhome. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-t-w" | |
-3 letters: monte, month, nohow, women. | |
-4 letters: enow, hent, hewn, home, homo, hone, hoot, howe, meno, meow, meth, mono, moon, moot, mote, moth, mown, newt, nome, note, nowt, omen, onto, them, then, thew, tome, tone, toom, toon, town, went, when, whet, whom, wont. | |
-5 letters: eon, eth, hem, hen, het, hew, hoe, hon, hot, how, men. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-m-n-o-o-t-w" | |
+1 letter: hometowns, townhomes. | |
+4 letters: commonwealth. | |
+5 letters: commonwealths. | |
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