Definition of Bean Town

1. Noun. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Town

Bazett's formula
Bazex's syndrome
Bazin's disease
Bazza
BcgI methyltransferase
Be
BeV
Beach-la-Mar
Beachcomber
Beacon Hill
Beale
Beale's cell
Bealtaine
Beamers
BeanShell
Bean Town (current term)
Beantown
Bearer of the Sword
Beat Generation
Beatle
Beatlehead
Beatleheads
Beatlemania
Beatlemaniac
Beatlemaniacs
Beatles
Beatlesque
Beatley

Literary usage of Bean Town

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World of Graft by Josiah Flynt (1901)
"It has everythin' to do with Bean-Town an' Chi. Poor old Chi is like the bloke what I called Jack. It don't drink; it soaks. Bean-Town's like Jim; ..."

2. A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory by Lucy Larcom (1889)
"Ours was called " Bean-town "; not because it was especially devoted to the cultivation of this leguminous edible, but probably because it adhered a long ..."

3. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1908)
"... Lake Washington side of Seattle, on which occasion we "swapped" Tech news and lived over some of our experiences in Bean Town, pleasant and otherwise. ..."

4. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1900)
"It was the name of " Bean-town." There are various theories advanced as to the origin of this title. ..."

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