boston

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbɔstən/
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/ˈbɔstən/ · /ˈbɒstən/ · [ˈbɒːstɪn] · /ˈbɑstən/

Definition of boston

31 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

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

  1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
  2. A number of places in the United States:
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  20. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  21. A town in South Australia.
  22. A municipality of the Philippines.
  23. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
  24. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
  25. A settlement in Belize.
  26. A settlement in Suriname.
  27. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
  28. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
  29. (rare)A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

noun

  1. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
  2. A Boston lettuce.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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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