Boston
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔstən/
ipa: /ˈbɒstən/
ipa: [ˈbɒːstɪn]
ipa: /ˈbɑstən/
ipa: /ˈbɒstən/
rhymes: -ɒstən
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.
Senses: glosses: A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
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The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
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An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
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A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
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topics: card-games
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glosses: An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
glosses: A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
Synonyms: sense: Massachusetts city
word: Beantown
Derived terms: big Dick from Boston
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