Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, in the eastern part of the state on an inlet of Massachusetts Bay. Founded in the 17th century, it was a leading center of agitation against England in the 18th century and a stronghold of abolitionist thought in the 19th century. Today it is a major commercial, financial, and educational hub.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game of cards.
- noun The first five tricks taken by a player in the game of boston.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun The
capital and largestcity in the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts , located in the northeastern United States. - proper noun A town in Lincolnshire,
England . - proper noun An eighteenth-century trick-taking
card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
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Examples
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STEVE BUCKLEY, "BOSTON HERALD": It was just a few years back that Boston was known as loserville, all the teams were bad.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, you know, we're still trying to get a sense of what's going on here in Boston.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, the two suspects who were arrested yesterday in connection with the scare across the city of Boston were arraigned this morning.
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LAUREL SWEET, "BOSTON HERALD": Well, Nancy, Neil Entwistle was conspicuously absent this afternoon from his wife and child ` s wakes in Kingston, which is on the south shore of Boston, oddly chose this time, however, to emerge from seclusion at his parents ` home in England.
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BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Yes, I'm with you in a Boston just waking up, people just turning on their radios and televisions and learning this news, which, of course, will be most important to the two million Catholics in this enormous Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
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BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, in Boston, outside Holy Cross Cathedral behind me here where for so many years, for the 18 years that he was archbishop here, Cardinal Bernard Law said mass most Sundays.
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BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Yes, I'm with you in a Boston just waking up, people just turning on their radios and televisions and learning this news, which, of course, will be most important to the two million Catholics in this enormous Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
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BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, Bill, here's the document, the news release from the Archdiocese of Boston, in which Cardinal Law announces that the pope has accepted his resignation.
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A few years later, Mr. Willis returned to Boston, where, in 1816, he started the _Boston Recorder_, the first newspaper, he was accustomed to say, that had ever been run on religious lines.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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My excellent "R. N." of the _Handbook of Boston_ is anxious to have his reader, as I in turn am anxious to have mine, distinguish between these future Pilgrim Fathers and the gentlemen and scholars who later founded Boston in Massachusetts
Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878
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Pahdon me; I fahted.
February 15, 2011