Boston

名词 n. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈbɒstən/    美 /ˈbɔstən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
  2. A Boston lettuce.
专有名词
  1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
  2. A number of places in the United States:; The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
    — There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
  3. A number of places in the United States:; An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.
  4. A number of places in the United States:; A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
  5. A number of places in the United States:; A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
  6. A number of places in the United States:; A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  7. A number of places in the United States:; A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
  8. A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
  9. A number of places in the United States:; A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
  10. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  11. A number of places in the United States:; A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  12. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
  13. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  14. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
  15. A number of places in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
  16. A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
  17. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
  18. A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
  19. A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
  20. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  21. A town in South Australia.
  22. A municipality of the Philippines.
  23. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
  24. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
  25. A settlement in Belize.
  26. A settlement in Suriname.
  27. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
  28. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
  29. A male given name transferred from the place name or surname. rare

词形变化

Bostons plural

词源

词源 1
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 Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
词源 2
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 Botolph's town or Botolph's stone (the name Botolph itself coming from Old English Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.
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