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 Meaning of BOSTON
| Pronunciation: |  | 'bostun 
 
 |  |  WordNet Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | [n]  state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | Beantown, capital of Massachusetts, Hub of the Universe |  |  |  |  | See Also: |  | battle of Bunker Hill, Bay State, Beacon Hill, Bunker Hill, Charlestown Navy Yard, MA, Massachusetts, Old Colony, state capital |  |     |  |  Products Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  |  BostonDescription not available.
 more details ... |  |  |  |  Webster's 1913 Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | \Bos"ton\, n.
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.
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