Boston
- a seaport in and the capital of Massachusetts, in the E part.
- (lowercase) a variety of whist, popular in the early 19th century, played by four persons with two packs of cards.
- (usually lowercase) a social dance that is a modification of the waltz.
Massachusetts
- a state in the NE United States, on the Atlantic coast. 8257 sq. mi. (21,385 sq. km). Capital: Boston. Abbreviation: MA (for use with zip code), Mass.
- Massachusett.
Examples from the Web for boston
Contemporary Examples
A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.
A year before he had similarly arrived with news of the Boston Tea Party.
Edgar was invited to study at the Berkeley School of Music in Boston and at NYU in New York City.
The trick has been to create nonstops from cities like Boston that were under-served.
Wahlberg grew up the youngest of nine children in a broken home in the rough Dorchester section of Boston.
Mark Wahlberg’s Pardon Plea: A Look Back At His Troubling, Violent, and Racist Rap SheetMarlow Stern
December 7, 2014
Historical Examples
It was on this errand that she first visited Boston—we believe in the winter of 1858-59.
Harriet, The Moses of Her PeopleSarah H. Bradford
Dogs are capering about, a collie, a setter, a Boston terrier.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
"I got the gun, and the Maxim-silencer thing, off a fence in Boston," he explained.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
Similar disasters have always been epochs in the chronology of Boston.
Old NewsNathaniel Hawthorne
He had gone aboard one of the vessels—a coaster from Boston.
Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle
boston
- a card game for four, played with two packs
- mainly US a slow gliding dance, a variation of the waltz
Boston
- a port in E Massachusetts, the state capital. Pop: 581 616 (2003 est)
- a port in E England, in SE Lincolnshire. Pop: 35 124 (2001)
Massachusetts
- a state of the northeastern US, on the Atlantic: a centre of resistance to English colonial policy during the War of American Independence; consists of a coastal plain rising to mountains in the west. Capital: Boston. Pop: 6 433 422 (2003 est). Area: 20 269 sq km (7826 sq miles)Abbreviation: Mass, (with zip code) MA
Word Origin and History for boston
Boston
U.S. city, 1630, named for town in Lincolnshire, a region from which many settlers came to New England. The name is said to be literally "Botolph's Stone," probably from the name of some Anglo-Saxon landowner (Old English Botwulf). Boston Massacre was March 5, 1770; three civilians killed, two mortally wounded. Card game Boston (1800) is based on the siege of Boston during the American Revolution.
Massachusetts
plural, originally (1614) a name for the Algonquian native people who lived around the bay, from Algonquian Massachusett "at the large hill," in reference to Great Blue Hill, southwest of Boston.
Boston
Capital of Massachusetts and largest city in the state.
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Massachusetts
State in the northeastern United States; one of the New England states. Bordered by Vermont and New Hampshire to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, and New York to the west. Its capital and largest city is Boston.