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Charlestown

Charlestown

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An old neighborhood in Boston with the Bunker Hill Monument
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtʃɑrlztaʊn/
translation icon : Charlestown
  • Many tourists visit Charlestown to see the Bunker Hill Monument.
  • arrived in Charlestown

And what about that good Boston movie with in Charlestown, the town?

Examples

  • That's the dog that saved Charlestown from the 1938 flood.

  • Almost three years after her captivity in St. Francis, Johnson returns to Charlestown.

    Academic text (2008)
  • I was given three years and four months in the Charlestown Prison.

  • Because of these boys, Charlestown is again a city on the rise.

  • The crowd continues to boo the Charlestown team.

  • And he volunteers at a soup kitchen over in Charlestown once a month.

  • I spent some winters in Charlestown.

  • We are the princes of Charlestown, and we will never be forgotten!

  • Her mother is in Charlestown subletting a freshly sanded loft.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • South Carolina merchant Samuel Eveleigh arrived from Charlestown in March 1733 to find Oglethorpe in full control.

    Academic text (2011)

Compounds

A historic navy shipyard in Boston where the warship Constitution is anchored

Surface Forms

Morphology

Charlestown = Charles + town (transparent) = Charles + town

The name is transparently a compound of the personal name 'Charles' and 'town', indicating a town named for Charles.

Etymology

Charlestown comes from the name Charles and the word town, meaning 'Charles's town'. It was named for King Charles I when it was founded, so today it is the name of the Boston neighborhood.