Boston
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,524 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,714 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services also: Hub of the Universe, Bean Town, Beantown, capital of Massachusetts
Boston in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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For three years he ministered to his people in Boston.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1
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Three years later the boy graduated from the Boston "Tech."
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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The "maiden aunt" could not speak plainer in writing for the "Boston Sunday Gazette."
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6 · Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks · Chapter 1
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That battlemented hull, Tantallon o’ the sea, Kicked in, as at Boston the taxed chests o’ tea!
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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At Boston chiefly, if not at Boston alone, was there a vigorous intellectual life among such authors as I have named.
My First Visit to New England, and Others · William Dean Howells · Chapter 1