English Explanatory Dictionary

Boston

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
  4. An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.
  5. A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
  6. A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
  7. A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  8. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
  9. A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
  10. A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
  11. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  12. A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
noun
  1. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
  2. A Boston lettuce.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɔstən/ /ˈbɒstən/ [ˈbɒːstɪn] en-us-va-Boston.ogg /ˈbɑstən/ en-us-Boston.ogg en-uk-Boston.ogg

Word forms

Boston Bostons

Etymology

The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

Synonyms

Beantown

Derived words

big Dick from Boston Boston baked beans Boston Bar Boston brace Boston Brahmin Boston brown bread Boston butt Boston crab Boston cream doughnut Boston cream pie Bostoner Bostonese Boston fern Bostonian Bostonite Bostonization Bostonize Boston marriage Boston marrow Boston Mess Boston Mountains Boston Spa Boston version East Boston New Boston South Boston

Translations

Arabic: بُوسْطُن Arabic: بوسطن Armenian: Բոստոն Belarusian: Бо́стан Bengali: বস্টন Bulgarian: Бо́стън Burmese: ဘော့စတွန် Chinese Mandarin: 波士頓 /波士顿 Danish: Boston Esperanto: Bostono Farefare: Bɔstɔn Finnish: Boston French: Boston Galician: Boston Georgian: ბოსტონი German: Boston Greek: Βοστώνη Greek: Βοστόνη Gujarati: બોસ્ટન Hawaiian: Pokekona Hebrew: בוסטון Hindi: बोस्टन Irish: Bostún Italian: Boston Japanese: ボストン Khmer: បូស្តុន Korean: 보스턴 Lao: ບອສຕັນ Latin: Bostonia Latin: Bostonium Latvian: Bostona Lithuanian: Bostonas Marathi: बॉस्टन Persian: بوستون Portuguese: Boston Russian: Бо́стон Serbo-Croatian: Бостон Serbo-Croatian: Boston Spanish: Boston Thai: บอสตัน Ukrainian: Бос́тон Urdu: بوسٹن Vietnamese: Bốt xtơn Vietnamese: Ba Sĩ Đốn Yiddish: באָסטאָן
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