Boston
See also: boston and boʻston
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 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.
- A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
- A town in Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Belmont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Licking County, Ohio.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Summit County, Ohio; named for its township, itself named for the city in Massachusetts.
- A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporatedcommunity, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Culpeper and Rappahannock counties, 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
- big Dick from Boston
- Boston baked beans
- Boston Bar
- Boston Brahmin
- Boston butt
- Boston crab
- Boston cream pie
- Bostoner
- Bostonese
- Boston fern
- Bostonian
- Bostonite
- Bostonization
- Bostonize
- Boston marriage
- Boston Mess
- Boston Spa
- Boston version
- New Boston
Descendants
- → Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni
- → Klamath-Modoc: basdin
- → Lushootseed: pastəd
Translations
city in Massachusetts
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village in Ireland
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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
- Tobons
Catalan
Proper noun
Boston m
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
Czech
Proper noun
Boston m
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
Derived terms
- Bostoňan
- bostonský
Further reading
- Boston in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Finnish
Etymology
From English Boston.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈboston/, [ˈbo̞s̠t̪o̞n]
- Rhymes: -oston
- Syllabification(key): Bos‧ton
Proper noun
Boston
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
Declension
| Inflection of Boston (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| instructive | — | Bostonein | |
| abessive | Bostonitta | Bostoneitta | |
| comitative | — | Bostoneineen | |
| Possessive forms of Boston (type paperi) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | Bostonini | Bostonimme |
| 2nd person | Bostonisi | Bostoninne |
| 3rd person | Bostoninsa | |
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Boston.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔs.tõ/
Proper noun
Boston
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
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)
Declension
Declension of Boston
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | Boston |
| genitive | Bostona |
| dative | Bostonu |
| accusative | Boston |
| vocative | Bostone |
| locative | Bostonu |
| instrumental | Bostonom |
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈboston]
Proper noun
Boston m (genitive singular Bostonu, declension pattern of dub)
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)
References
- Boston in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Spanish
Proper noun
Boston ?
- Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)