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Bostoner

Bostoner noun: a person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Noun

Bostoner (plural Bostoners)

  1. A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
    • Sir Edmund took the field himself and had brought the Indians to great distress when the Bostoners seized him, surprised his officers, seized the ships, embezzled the stores, supplied the enemy with ammunition and left us a prey to them.1901, Calendar of State Papers
    • The original idea was to erect several large buildings to serve as the nucleus of a Bostoner community, and to convert one of the apartments into a shul.1990, Hanoch Teller, Leṿi Yitsḥaḳ Horoṿits (ha-Leṿi.), The Bostoner
    Synonyms:
    Bostonian

Examples of Bostoner in a sentence

  • As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.2011, Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed:
  • Well, that's the way many Bostoners viewed it.2015, James G. Houston, Growth of a Man:

Synonyms of Bostoner

Forms of Bostoner

pluralBostoners

Origin of Bostoner

From Boston + -er.

Questions about Bostoner

What does Bostoner mean?
Bostoner means a person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
How do you use Bostoner in a sentence?
As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise.
What part of speech is Bostoner?
Bostoner is a noun.
What is the plural of Bostoner?
The plural of Bostoner is Bostoners.

Words near Bostoner in the dictionary

  1. Boston Tea Party
  2. Boston terrier
  3. Boston terriers
  4. Boston version
  5. Boston versions
  6. Bostoner
  7. Bostoners
  8. Bostonese
  9. Bostoneses
  10. Bostonia
  11. Bostonian

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