bostonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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 古期英語 Botwulf, from boda + wulf). However, this is uncertain.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈbɔstən/
• (New England) IPA: /ˈbɒstən/, [ˈbɒːstɪn]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈbɑstən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɒstən/
• 韻: -ɒstən

固有名詞

Boston

1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
      • 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 8 June 2019:

        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.

   2. An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.
   3. A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
   4. A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
   5. A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   6. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
   7. A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
   8. A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
   9. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   10. A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   11. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
   12. An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   13. An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
   14. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
   15. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
   16. An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
   17. A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
   18. An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
3. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
4. A town in South Australia.
5. A municipality of the Philippines.
6. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
7. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
8. A settlement in Belize.
9. A settlement in Suriname.
10. (card games) An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
11. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
12. (rare) A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.

同意語

• (Massachusetts city): Beantown

派生語

派生した語

• → Abenaki: Pastonki, pastoni
• → Klamath-Modoc: basdin
• → Lushootseed: pastəd
• → Mohawk: Wáhston

名詞

Boston (plural Bostons)

1. (card games) In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
2. A Boston lettuce.

参照

アナグラム

• Tobson, Tobons