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Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill proper noun: a suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.

Proper noun (1)

Beacon Hill

  1. A suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. An area of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
    • Soon after, the king's jack was set up at the Fort, and a pair of colors at Beacon Hill: which gave notice to some thousands of soldiers on Charlestown side that the controversy was now to be ended; and multitudes would have been there, but that there was no need.1689, Samuel Prince, [Letter]; republished as “Samuel Prince to Thomas Hinckley”, in MHS Collections, series 4, volume 5, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1861, →OCLC, page 194
    • Ordered, That the Members of Boston prepare the draft of a Bill for the better securing Beacon-Hill in the Town of Boston.1764, Journal of the Honourable House of Representatives, Boston: Green and Russell; republished as Journals of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, volume 41, Massachusetts Historical...
    1. (metonymically) The Massachusetts state legislature and government.
      • Winchester approved the suggestion. Beacon Hill passed the enabling legislation, and the town voters ratified it.1978 November 2, Joanne Reiss, “Rules and Regulations Governing Town Meeting”, in The Winchester Star, volume 98, number 11, Winchester, MA: Century Publications, →ISSN, special section, page 1
      • In 1965, when Beacon Hill passed the anti-segregation Racial Imbalance Law and thereby gave the Boston School committee warning of the shape of things to come, Robert Dentler and Alex Rodriguez were still in New York.1982, Barry MacDonald et al., Bread and Dreams, Norwich, England: University of East Anglia, →ISBN, page 20
  3. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

Proper noun (2)

Beacon Hill

  1. A hill in Sha Tin district, Hong Kong.
    • As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Ruixue Zhang finds that the city offers some incredible views… for those brave enough to scale Beacon Hill.2019 February 1, Ruixue Zhang, “Video: Hong Kong Humans – The students scaling new heights… on Beacon Hill”, in Hong Kong Free Press, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2023, Hong Kong
    • There are only 45 units in this low-density and extremely prestigious development on Beacon Hill. It faces south with spectacular views over Kowloon Peninsula, Victoria Harbour and the mountains of The Peak.2019 December 4, Peta Tomlinson, “Elite living in Central Kowloon’s Beacon Hill, Ho Man Tin and Kadoorie Hill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Dec 2019...
  2. A neighbourhood of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Hong Kong.

Origin of Beacon Hill

Calque of Cantonese 煙墩山 /烟墩山.

Questions about Beacon Hill

What does Beacon Hill mean?
Beacon Hill means a suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
What part of speech is Beacon Hill?
Beacon Hill is a proper noun.

Words near Beacon Hill in the dictionary

  1. Beacock
  2. Beacom
  3. Beacoms
  4. beacon
  5. Beacon Falls
  6. Beacon Hill
  7. beacon of hope
  8. beacon school
  9. beacon schools
  10. beaconage
  11. beaconages

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