Boston
English
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.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɔstən/
- (New England) IPA(key): /ˈbɒstən/, [ˈbɒːstɪn]
Audio (US-Rhode Island) (file)
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈbɑstən/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒstən/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɒstən
Proper noun
Boston
- A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
- 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.
Synonyms
- (Massachusetts city): Beantown
Derived terms
Translations
city in Massachusetts
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Noun
Boston (plural Bostons)
- (card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
- A Boston lettuce.
Anagrams
Catalan
Czech
Proper noun
Boston m inan (related adjective bostonský, demonym Bostoňan)
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
Declension
Further reading
- Boston in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboston/, [ˈbo̞s̠to̞n]
- Rhymes: -oston
- Syllabification(key): Bos‧ton
Declension
| Inflection of Boston (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | Boston | Bostonit | ||
| genitive | Bostonin | Bostonien Bostoneiden Bostoneitten | ||
| partitive | Bostonia | Bostoneita Bostoneja | ||
| illative | Bostoniin | Bostoneihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | Boston | Bostonit | ||
| accusative | nom. | Boston | Bostonit | |
| gen. | Bostonin | |||
| genitive | Bostonin | Bostonien Bostoneiden Bostoneitten | ||
| partitive | Bostonia | Bostoneita Bostoneja | ||
| inessive | Bostonissa | Bostoneissa | ||
| elative | Bostonista | Bostoneista | ||
| illative | Bostoniin | Bostoneihin | ||
| adessive | Bostonilla | Bostoneilla | ||
| ablative | Bostonilta | Bostoneilta | ||
| allative | Bostonille | Bostoneille | ||
| essive | Bostonina | Bostoneina | ||
| translative | Bostoniksi | Bostoneiksi | ||
| abessive | Bostonitta | Bostoneitta | ||
| instructive | — | Bostonein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔs.tõ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˈbɔʃ.tõ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈbɔʃ.tɔn/
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bôston/
- Hyphenation: Bos‧ton
Proper noun
Bȍston m (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɔstɔn]
Proper noun
Boston m inan (genitive singular Bostonu, declension pattern of dub)
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
References
- “Boston”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboston/ [ˈbos.t̪õn]
- Rhymes: -oston
- Syllabification: Bos‧ton
Turkish
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