Boston

Meanings

Proper Noun

• town/and/borough Lincolnshire (county) England (constituent country).
• number of places USA (country):
• town KwaZulu-Natal (province) South Africa (country).
• town South Australia (state).
• municipality Philippines (country).
• village county, County Clare Ireland (country).
• village Kyrgyzstan (country).
• settlement Belize (country).
• settlement Suriname (country).
• An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
• transferred from the place name.
• A male given name from place names.

Noun

• In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
• A Boston lettuce.

Related

Similar words

• Beantown

Origin

• The US city is named after the English town (from which several prominent colonists had come), which itself is sometimes said to be named as a contraction of w:St. Botolph or [[w:St. Botolph (the name [[Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.