Boston

English

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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 St Botolph's town or St Botolph's stone. However, this is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbɒstən/, /ˈbɔstən/, /ˈbɑstən/

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• (Massachusetts, Rhode Island) IPA: [ˈbɒːstɪn]

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• Rhymes: -ɒstən

Proper noun

Boston

1. The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the northeastern United States.

   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. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.

Synonyms

• (Massachusetts city): Beantown

Descendants

• Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni

Translations

place name

• Arabic: بوسطن (ar) (busṭun) m
• Armenian: Բոստոն (hy) (Boston)
• Belarusian: Бостан (be) (Bóstan) m
• Bengali: বস্টন (bn) (bôsţôn)
• Bulgarian: Бостон (bg) (Boston) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 波士頓 (cmn), 波士顿 (cmn) (Bōshìdùn)

• Danish: Boston (da)
• Esperanto: Bostono (eo)
• French: Boston (fr)
• Georgian: ბოსტონი (ka) (bostoni)
• German: Boston (de) n
• Greek: Βοστώνη (el) (Bostóni), Βοστόνη (el) (Bostóni)
• Gujarati: બોસ્ટન (gu)
• Hawaiian: Pokekona
• Hebrew: בוסטון (he) (bost'on)
• Hindi: बोस्टन (hi) (bosṭan)
• Irish: Bostún (ga)

• Italian: Boston (it) f
• Japanese: ボストン (ja) (Bosuton)
• Korean: 보스턴 (ko) (Boseuteon)
• Latin: Bostonia (la)
• Latvian: Bostona (lv)
• Lithuanian: Bostonas (lt)
• Persian: بوستون (fa) (Boston)
• Russian: Бостон (ru) (Bóston) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бостон (sh) m

  Roman: Boston (sh) m

• Spanish: Boston (es)
• Thai: บอสตัน (th) (bòt-dtan)
• Ukrainian: Бостон (uk) (Bóston) m
• Urdu: بوسٹن (ur) (bosṭan)
• Vietnamese: Bốt xtơn (vi)
• Yiddish: באָסטאָן (yi) (boston)

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bôston/
• Hyphenation: Bos‧ton

Proper noun

Bȍston m (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)

1. Boston

Declension

    declension of Boston

	singular
nominative	Boston
genitive	Bostona
dative	Bostonu
accusative	Boston
vocative	Bostone
locative	Bostonu
instrumental	Bostonom