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Boston

proper noun

  1. city in and state capital of Massachusetts, United States
  2. market town and inland port in the borough of the same name in the county of Lincolnshire, England
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbɔstən/ / /ˈbɒstən/ / [ˈbɒːstɪn]

name

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.

  1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
  2. A number of places in the United States:

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  20. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  21. A town in South Australia.
  22. A municipality of the Philippines.
  23. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
  24. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
  25. A settlement in Belize.
  26. A settlement in Suriname.
  27. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
  28. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
  29. A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

noun

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.

  1. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
  2. A Boston lettuce.