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Bostoner en · NOUN

Etymology

From Boston + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
   • As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise. 2011, Owen Stanwood, The Empire Reformed:
   • 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
   • Some viewed the Yankees as monopolizing the sport with all that money they had to offer. Well, that's the way many Bostoners viewed it. 2015, James G. Houston, Growth of a Man:
   • 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

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Synonyms

Bostonian