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BEANTOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Beantown mean? 

BEANTOWN (noun)
  The noun BEANTOWN has 1 sense:

1. state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial servicesplay

  Familiarity information: BEANTOWN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BEANTOWN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bean Town; Beantown; Boston; capital of Massachusetts; Hub of the Universe

Instance hypernyms:

state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Beantown"):

Charlestown Navy Yard (the navy yard in Boston where the frigate 'Constitution' is anchored)

Boston Harbor (the seaport at Boston)

Beacon Hill (a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building)

Charlestown (a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629)

Domain member region:

battle of Bunker Hill; Bunker Hill (the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces)

Holonyms ("Beantown" is a part of...):

Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)


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