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BEACON HILL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Beacon Hill mean?
• BEACON HILL (noun)
The noun BEACON HILL has 1 sense:
1. a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building
Familiarity information: BEACON HILL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city district (a district of a town or city)
Holonyms ("Beacon Hill" is a part of...):
Bean Town; Beantown; Boston; capital of Massachusetts; Hub of the Universe (state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services)
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