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Hometown vs Residence - What's the difference?

hometown | residence |

As nouns the difference between hometown and residence

is that hometown is an individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence while residence is the place where one lives.

hometown

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main residence.

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    residence

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The place where one lives.
  • * Macaulay
    • Johnson took up his residence in London.
  • A building used as a home.
  • The place where a corporation is established.
  • The state of living in a particular place or environment.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The confessor had often made considerable residences in Normandy.
  • The place where anything rests permanently.
  • * Milton
    • But when a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all his regal power, he then fights against his own majesty and kingship.
  • subsidence, as of a sediment
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • That which falls to the bottom of liquors; sediment; also, refuse; residuum.
    • (Jeremy Taylor)

    Related terms

    * reside * residency * resident * residential

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