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Webster 1913 Edition

Boston

Bos′ton

,
Noun.
A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; – said to be so called from
Boston,
Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

Definition 2024

Boston

Boston

See also: boston

English

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.
    • (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, USA
  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. A census-designated placeand an unincorporated community in Virginia
  13. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
  14. A male given name

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Descendants

Translations

Catalan

Proper noun

Boston m

  1. Boston

Finnish

Proper noun

Boston

  1. Boston

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English Boston.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈbɔs.tõ/

Proper noun

Boston f

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Bȍston m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)

  1. Boston

Declension

Spanish

Proper noun

Boston ?

  1. Boston

boston

boston

See also: Boston

Chinook Jargon

Noun

boston

  1. An American.

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.

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