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# bostonian

«bostonian» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who comes from or lives in Boston, a big city in Massachusetts, USA. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/#m2)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bostonian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bostonian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.