Boston

Definitions

1. A town and borough in Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF3244).
2. In the card game spades, a bid of all 13 tricks.
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. The capital and largest city of Massachusetts, the informal capital of New England, and the county seat of Suffolk County.
5. A Boston lettuce.
6. An inactive township in Madison County, Arkansas.
7. A township in Washington County, Arkansas.
8. A city in Georgia; named for Thomas M. Boston, who found a medicinal spring near the town site.
9. A township and town therein, in Wayne County, Indiana; named for the city in Massachusetts.
10. A neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.
11. A census-designated place in Nelson County, Kentucky.
12. A township in Ionia County, Michigan.
13. An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the city in Massachusetts.
14. A town in New York; named for the city in Massachusetts.
15. An unincorporated community in Belmont County, Ohio.
16. An unincorporated community in Highland County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
17. An unincorporated community in Licking County, Ohio.
18. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Summit County, Ohio; named for the city in Massachusetts.
19. A census-designated place in Pennsylvania.
20. An unincorporated community, the county seat of Bowie County, Texas.
21. A census-designated place in Accomack County, Virginia.
22. An unincorporated community in Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia.
23. A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
24. A town in South Australia.
25. A municipality of the Philippines.
26. A village in County Clare, Ireland.
27. A village in Kyrgyzstan.
28. A settlement in Belize.
29. A settlement in Suriname.
30. An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.
31. A habitational surname transferred from the place name.
32. A male given name transferred from the place name or surname.
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Examples

“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.”

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