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Boston

[ baw-stuhn, bos-tuhn ]

noun

  1. a seaport in and the capital of Massachusetts, in the E part.
  2. (lowercase) a variety of whist, popular in the early 19th century, played by four persons with two packs of cards.
  3. (usually lowercase) a social dance that is a modification of the waltz.


Boston

1

/ ˈɒə /

noun

  1. a port in E Massachusetts, the state capital. Pop: 581 616 (2003 est)
  2. a port in E England, in SE Lincolnshire. Pop: 35 124 (2001)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

boston

2

/ ˈɒə /

noun

  1. a card game for four, played with two packs
  2. a slow gliding dance, a variation of the waltz
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Boston

  1. Capital of Massachusetts and largest city in the state.
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Notes

Site of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party .
Boston is often called “the Hub” for “Hub of the Universe,” or “Beantown” after Boston baked beans.
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Murray, who skated on the Boston Bruins’ imposing “700-pound Line,” a name inspired by the collective weight of the three players, said the absence of nicknames doesn’t necessarily represent progress.

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Gen. Rob Bonta, eight Democratic-leaning states filed suit in Boston and argued that Congress had approved the grants and that their sudden canceling was not “authorized by law.”

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Told that she was in Boston and would not attend, Carter said that was “not acceptable to me.”

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A six-person special operations response team responded Wednesday to the 900 block of Boston Street to investigate potential human remains, the Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement.

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“The same battles they were fighting in the 1850s here in Boston about what kind of books belong in the library are back again,” she said.

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