Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bostoner

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bo-ston-er
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"As strangely dressed foreigners Danckaerts and Sluyter stood out, and many Bostoners feared they were papists in disguise."
"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."

Etymology

From Boston + -er.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Boston

Inflected Forms

Bostoners (plural)

Synonyms

Bostonian

Questions

What does bostoner mean?: A person who was born in or who lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Where does bostoner come from?: From Boston + -er.

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