Boston

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]
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑstən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒstən/

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• Rhymes: -ɒstən

Proper noun

Boston

1. The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the informal capital of New England, located in the northeastern United States. It is the county seat of Suffolk County.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Unknown:

     And here’s to good old Boston, / The land of the bean and the cod, / Where Lowells talk only to Cabots / And Cabots talk only to God.

2. A town in Lincolnshire, England.
3. A settlement in Belize.
4. A city in Georgia in the United States.
5. A town in Indiana.
6. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
7. A town in New York.
8. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
9. A municipality in the Philippines.
10. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
11. A settlement in Suriname.
12. An unincorporated community in Texas, USA, which is the official county seat of Bowie County (see also New Boston).
13. A census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Virginia.
14. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
15. A habitational surname​ transferred from the place name.
16. (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name and the surname.

Anagrams

• Tobons

Proper noun

Boston m

1. Boston

Proper noun

Boston m

1. Boston

Further reading

• Boston in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

Proper noun

Boston

1. Boston

Etymology

Borrowed from English Boston.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.tõ/

Proper noun

Boston f

1. Boston (a city in Massachusetts, United States of America)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôston/
• Hyphenation: Bos‧ton

Proper noun

Bȍston m (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)

1. Boston

Proper noun

Boston ?

1. Boston