Boston — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).

2. 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.

   Examples

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   There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.

3. 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. The Massachusetts government.

   Usage

   • metonymically

4. A number of places in the United States: An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.

5. A number of places in the United States: A township in Washington County, Arkansas.

6. A number of places in the United States: A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.

7. A number of places in the United States: A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.

8. A number of places in the United States: A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

9. A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.

10. A number of places in the United States: A township in Ionia County, Michigan.

11. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.

12. A number of places in the United States: A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.

13. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.

14. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.

15. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.

16. A number of places in the United States: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.

17. A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.

18. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.

19. A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.

20. A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.

21. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

22. A town in South Australia.

23. A municipality of the Philippines.

24. A village in County Clare, Ireland.

25. A village in Kyrgyzstan.

26. A settlement in Belize.

27. A settlement in Suriname.

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

29. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.

30. A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

    Usage

    • Rare

Noun

1. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.

2. A Boston lettuce.