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Bostonian

Bostonian

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A person who is from or lives in Boston, Massachusetts
  • noun
  • /bɔˈstoʊniən/
: bostoniano
  • As a German married to a Bostonian (we live in Bavaria), I share your grief.
  • black Bostonians

OK, what do you call an evil non Bostonian?

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Examples

  • As a proud Bostonian, she attended the local parade every year.

  • So right from the start, most Bostonians weren't going to support her.

    Blog text (16)

  • And I say this as a native Bostonian, all of us with English as a second language.

  • And, today, well, today, we Bostonians face a similar invasion.

    Black Mass (2015)

  • I went dancing with him, a young blue-blooded Bostonian.

    Lolita (1962)

  • The movie indicates that the past relationship between the young Bostonian doctor and his nurse cannot be recaptured in the present.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Louis Agassiz, the great Bostonian natural scientist at Harvard.

  • Too excited to let that worry me, with a Bostonian's sixth sense, I headed for the nearest streetcar stop.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Everywhere I looked, Bostonians in heavy winter clothing scurried past, their arms laden with brightly wrapped packages.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Many Bostonians enjoy the annual Boston Marathon as a celebration of the city.

Surface Forms

Bostonian singular
Bostonians plural

Morphology

Bostonian = Boston (transparent) = Boston + ian

Formed by adding the productive demonym suffix '-ian' to the place name 'Boston', so the meaning 'inhabitant of Boston' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Bostonian comes from the place name Boston plus the ending -ian, which means 'person from' or 'relating to', like Parisian or Canadian. So a Bostonian is someone who comes from or lives in Boston, Massachusetts.