boston
IPA: bˈɑstʌn
Root Word: Boston
noun
- A town and borough of Lincolnshire, England.
- A number of places in the United States:
- The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
- An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas
- A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
- A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
- A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
- A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
- A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
- A town in South Australia.
- A municipality of the Philippines.
- A village in County Clare, Ireland.
- A village in Kyrgyzstan.
- A settlement in Belize.
- A settlement in Suriname.
- (card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
- A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
- (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
- (card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
- A Boston lettuce.
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Examples of "boston" in Sentences
- The tome was privately printed in Boston.
- Boston was released on his own recognizance.
- He was the winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon.
- The successor firm is Cram and Ferguson of Boston.
- Attached to the deck of the Cuyahoga was a Boston Whaler.
- The above are the fundamental figures of the Walking Boston.
- Lydon is the subject of by the Boston duo The Dresden Dolls.
- Another such test is the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination.
- At the heart of the Journal is the aristocratic Bancroft family of Boston.
- More fearsome was the British punishment of Boston after the Boston Tea Party.
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