hometown
故郷
解説 Definition
生まれ育った町や都市のこと。出身地。
Your hometown is the town or city where you were born or grew up. People often use this word when talking about their family background or the place they feel connected to. It can mean the place you are from, even if you do not live there now.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
hometown は home+town で、「自分にとって home と感じる町」と分けると覚えやすいです。birthplace が“生まれた場所”という事実寄りなのに対し、hometown は“育った地元・愛着のある土地”という気持ちが乗りやすい語。go back to my hometown, my hometown friends のように、帰省・旧友・思い出と結びつけると定着します。現在住んでいる city とは別でもよく、country ほど広くない、町レベルの身近さを意識すると混同しにくいです。
Break it into `home + town`: the town that feels like home. It is more personal than `birthplace`, which is just the fact of where you were born. Remember common pairs like `go back to my hometown` and `my hometown friends`.
例文
Where is your hometown?
あなたの故郷はどこですか?
I visited my hometown last summer.
去年の夏、故郷を訪れました。
hometown の類義語・関連語
類義語
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hometown の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語 hām(家、住居)と tūn(囲い地、集落)の複合語。homeは「安らぐ場所」、townは「柵で囲まれた居住地」が原義。関連語: homeland, township。故郷とは「自分の根を張った集落」という感覚が語源に宿っている。
This word is a compound of Old English hām, meaning "home" or "dwelling," and tūn, meaning an enclosed place or settlement. Over time, home kept the sense of a place where one belongs, while town developed from a fenced settlement into the modern idea of a town. Related English words include homeland and township.
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