Boston

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.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔstən/
• (New England) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒstən/, [ˈbɒːstɪn]

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• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑstən/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbɒstən/

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• Rhymes: -ɒstən

Boston

1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244). ^[1]
2. A number of places in the United States:
   2. The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
   3. An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.
   4. A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
   5. A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
   6. A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   7. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   8. A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
   9. A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
   10. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   11. A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   12. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
   13. An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   14. An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
   15. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   16. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
   17. An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
   18. A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
   19. An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
3. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
4. A town in South Australia.
5. A municipality of the Philippines.
6. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
7. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
8. A settlement in Belize.
9. A settlement in Suriname.
10. (card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
11. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
12. (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

• (Massachusetts city): Beantown

• → Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni
• → Klamath-Modoc: basdin
• → Lushootseed: pastəd
• → Mohawk: Wáhston

Boston (plural Bostons)

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

• Tobson, Tobons

Boston m

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈboston]

Boston m inan (relational adjective bostonský, demonym Bostoňan)

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• “Boston”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Borrowed from English Boston.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.tən/, /ˈbɔs.tɔn/

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Boston n

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• Boston on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From English Boston.

• IPA^(key): /ˈboston/, [ˈbo̞s̠to̞n]
• Rhymes: -oston
• Syllabification^(key): Bos‧ton
• Hyphenation^(key): Bos‧ton

Boston

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.tɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔstɔn
• Syllabification: Bos‧ton

Boston m inan (related adjective bostoński, demonym bostończyk, female demonym bostonka)

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• Boston in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English Boston.

Boston ?

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• IPA^(key): /bôston/
• Hyphenation: Bos‧ton

Bȍston m inan (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔstɔn]

Boston m inan (genitive singular Bostonu, declension pattern of dub, relational adjective bostonský, demonym Bostončan, female demonym Bostončanka)

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

• “Boston”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈboston/ [ˈbos.t̪õn]
• Rhymes: -oston
• Syllabification: Bos‧ton

Boston ?

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)

Boston

1. Boston (the capital and largest city of Massachusetts, United States)