Definition of boston Boston

/bɑˈstʌn/ - [bastun] - bos•ton

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boston - state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
		Hub of the Universe, Bean Town, Beantown, capital of Massachusetts
		bay state, old colony, ma, massachusetts informal terms for a mother
		charlestown navy yard the navy yard in Boston where the frigate `Constitution' is anchored
		boston harbor the seaport at Boston
		beacon hill a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building

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boston (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.

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The capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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bost′on, n. a game at cards, somewhat similar to whist. [From Boston in Mass., U.S.]

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A city and capital of Massachusetts, situated on the west side of Massachusetts Bay, at the mouth of Charles River. It was built about 1627. Here originated that resistance to the British authorities which led to American independence. The act of Parliament laying duties on tea, papers, colors, etc. (passed June, 1767), so excited the indignation of the citizens of Boston, that they destroyed several hundred chests of tea, December 16, 1773. Boston seaport was shut by the English Parliament, until restitution should be made to the East India Company for the tea lost, March 25, 1774. The town was besieged by the British next year, and 400 houses were destroyed. A battle between the royalist and independent troops, in which the latter were defeated, took place June 17, 1775; the city was evacuated by the king’s troops, April, 1776. The inhabitants were very zealous against slavery in 1861.

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