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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