Boston

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbÉ’stÉ™n/, /ˈbÉ”stÉ™n/, /ˈbÉ‘stÉ™n/
• New England IPA: ˈbɒːstɪn
• Rhymes: -É’stÉ™n

Origin

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 St Botolph's town or St Botolph's stone. However, this is uncertain.

Full definition of Boston

Proper noun

1. The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the informal capital of New England, located in the northeastern United States.And here’s to good old Boston,The land of the bean and the cod,Where Lowells talk only to CabotsAnd Cabots talk only to God.
2. A town in Lincolnshire, England.
3. A settlement in Belize
4. A city in Georgia, USA
5. A town in Indiana
6. A village in Kyrgyzstan
7. A town in New York
8. A CDP in Pennsylvania
9. A municipality in the Philippines
10. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
11. A settlement in Suriname
12. A CDP and an unincorporated community in Virginia
13. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.

Synonyms

• (Massachusetts city) Beantown

Derived terms

• Bostonian, Bostonese, Bostonite
• Boston baked beans
• Boston Brahmin
• Boston butt
• Boston crab
• Boston cream pie
• Boston fern
• Boston marriage
• Boston Mess

Descendants

• Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni
• Klamath-Modoc: basdin