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# bostonian

noun (a Bostonian, Bostonians); adjective (Bostonian)

«bostonian» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in Massachusetts, USA. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#m1)
2. (adjective) Having to do with Boston or its people, such as the Boston accent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#m2)

### In the lessons

In US history lessons, Bostonians took part in the Boston Tea Party (1773) before the American Revolution. A Bostonian accent often drops the «r» sounds: «pahk the cah».

### Examples

- My pen pal is a Bostonian. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#x1)
- Bostonians love their baseball team, the Red Sox. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#x2)
- The Bostonian accent is easy to recognise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#x3)
- Angry Bostonians threw tea into the harbour. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#x4)
- She is a proud Bostonian. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#x5)

### Note

Written with a capital B. Boston is also a small town in Lincolnshire, England, after which the US city was named.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bostonian» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bostonian» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bostonian.html) on Mova free.