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, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbɑstən/

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒstən

Boston

1. A town and borough of Lincolnshire, England.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
   2. A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
   3. A town in Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   4. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   5. A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
   6. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   7. A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   8. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
   9. An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   10. An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
   11. An unincorporated community in Summit County, Ohio; named for its township, itself named for the city in Massachusetts.
   12. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
   13. An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
   14. A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
   15. An unincorporated community in Culpeper and Rappahannock counties, 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

Boston (plural Bostons)

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

• Tobons

Boston m

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

Boston m

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

This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Boston in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

From English Boston.

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

Boston

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

Unadapted borrowing from English Boston.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.tõ/

Boston

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

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

Bȍston m (Cyrillic spelling Бо̏стон)

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈboston]

Boston m inan (genitive singular Bostonu, declension pattern of dub)

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

• Boston in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Boston ?

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

Boston

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