Boston

[baw-stuhn, bos-tuhn] / ˈbɔ stən, ˈbɒs tən /

NOUN

capital of massachusetts

Synonyms

STRONG

Beantown

WEAK

Athens of America Cradle of Modern America Hub of the Universe Puritan City the City of Kind Hearts the Cradle of Liberty the Hub the Walking City

Example Sentences

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Last August, the Boston Red Sox gave top prospect Roman Anthony an eight-year, $130 million contract that could ultimately net him $100 million more than that.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Dan Boston, lead fund manager at Polar Capital, called the Strait of Hormuz an “interesting conundrum,” because it shows how fragile global supply chains have become in a fracturing world order.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Scotland and England fans face paying more than four times the usual prices for train tickets when they travel to World Cup group-stage matches in Boston.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The Baxter Road group hired former Boston police commissioner Ed Davis to investigate cuts to the sturdy fabric tubes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“I marched from Connecticut to Boston with about twenty other men from my town. It took a week—a hundred miles. My feet nearly fell off.”

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis