Definitions

Boston

[baw-stuhn, bos-tuhn] / ˈbɔ stən, ˈbɒs tən /

NOUN

capital of massachusetts

Synonyms

STRONG

Beantown

WEAK

Athens of America Cradle of Modern America Hub of the Universe Puritan City the City of Kind Hearts the Cradle of Liberty the Hub the Walking City

Example Sentences

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“Pretty much everything. We ran out of everything,” Paul Morris of the White Bull Tavern in Boston said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026

Mehr Anand, a 21-year-old rising senior at Northeastern University in Boston, used to be annoyed that professors prohibited him from using AI in his beginner classes.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

Boston Common will no longer be the central meeting place, nor will the Tartan Army pack out any more nights at Fenway Park.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2026

Cora was the manager under Dombrowski when Boston won the World Series in 2018, and the Phillies pursued him aggressively.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 20, 2026

But 346 miles is more than the distance between Boston and New York City, almost as far as from Los Angeles to San Francisco, about the entire width of Iowa.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong