boston Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
    Bean Town; Hub of the Universe; Beantown; capital of Massachusetts.

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Bos"ton noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913