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Definition of Bean Town
1. Noun. State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services.
Geographical relationships: Battle Of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill
Terms within: Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston Harbor, Beacon Hill, Charlestown
Generic synonyms: State Capital
Group relationships: Bay State, Ma, Massachusetts, Old Colony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bean Town
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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