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Boston

Pronunciation: /ˈbɔstən/

The English word “Boston” has 7 meanings listed here.

proper noun

  1. The Massachusetts government.
  2. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
  3. An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
  4. An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
  5. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.

noun

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

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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