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Definition of Boston
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
Definition of Boston
1. n. 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.
Definition of Boston
1. Proper noun. The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the northeastern United States. ¹
2. Proper noun. A town in Lincolnshire, England. ¹
3. Proper noun. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boston
1. a card game [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boston
Literary usage of Boston
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1921)
"Boston, 1900. Seaward: Elegy on the Death of Thomas William Parsons. Boston, 1893.
... Boston, 1898. New York, 1907. The Holy Graal and Other Fragments. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Boston League of Women Voters, Committee on Education for Citizenship, Boston,
... Boy Scouts of America, Greater Boston Federation, 45.1 Washington St., ..."
3. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1905)
"Edgar, Charles L., The Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston, Boston, Mass.
Eglin, Wm. CL, Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia, Pa. ..."
4. The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an by Isaiah Thomas, Benjamin Franklin Thomas, American Antiquarian Society (1874)
"Boston. Colman, Benjamin. Prayer to the Lord of the Harvest ... Boston. Cooper,
William. The clanger of People's losing the good Impression made by the late ..."
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