From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
hometown
n : the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your
principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown
again"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
hometown \hometown\, home town \home town\n.
the town (or city) where a person was born or grew up or has
his principal residence; as, he never went back to his
hometown again.
[WordNet 1.5]