Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, in the eastern part of the state on Boston Bay, an arm of Massachusetts Bay. Founded in the 17th century, it was a leading center of agitation against England in the 18th century and a stronghold of abolitionist thought in the 19th century. Today it is a major commercial, financial, and educational hub. Population: 591,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A game of cards. The hands are dealt and played as in whist, each of the four players having the right to bid or offer to take unassisted a certain number of tricks, to lose every trick but one, or every trick, etc. The highest bidder plays against the rest, and if successful gains, if defeated loses, according to the size of his bid. There are varieties of the game known as boston de Fontainebleau and Russian boston.
- n. The first five tricks taken by a player in the game of boston.
Wiktionary
- n. The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, located in the northeastern United States.
- n. A town in Lincolnshire, England.
- n. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- n. state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
Examples
“STEVE BUCKLEY, "BOSTON HERALD": It was just a few years back that Boston was known as loserville, all the teams were bad.”
“DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, the two suspects who were arrested yesterday in connection with the scare across the city of Boston were arraigned this morning.”
“DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, you know, we're still trying to get a sense of what's going on here in Boston.”
“LAUREL SWEET, "BOSTON HERALD": Well, Nancy, Neil Entwistle was conspicuously absent this afternoon from his wife and child ` s wakes in Kingston, which is on the south shore of Boston, oddly chose this time, however, to emerge from seclusion at his parents ` home in England.”
“BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, in Boston, outside Holy Cross Cathedral behind me here where for so many years, for the 18 years that he was archbishop here, Cardinal Bernard Law said mass most Sundays.”
“BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Yes, I'm with you in a Boston just waking up, people just turning on their radios and televisions and learning this news, which, of course, will be most important to the two million Catholics in this enormous Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.”
“BILL DELANEY, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF: Well, Bill, here's the document, the news release from the Archdiocese of Boston, in which Cardinal Law announces that the pope has accepted his resignation.”
“A few years later, Mr. Willis returned to Boston, where, in 1816, he started the _Boston Recorder_, the first newspaper, he was accustomed to say, that had ever been run on religious lines.”
“My excellent "R. N." of the _Handbook of Boston_ is anxious to have his reader, as I in turn am anxious to have mine, distinguish between these future Pilgrim Fathers and the gentlemen and scholars who later founded Boston in Massachusetts”
“One, dated Boston, 1773, entitled "Lines on Bohea Tea," was written by S.sannah Clarke, great-aunt of W.S. Robinson; the other, copied from Thomas '_Boston Journal_, of December 2, 1773, was written by”
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