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boston | d |

As a proper noun boston

is the capital and largest city in the commonwealth of massachusetts and the informal capital of new england, located in the northeastern united states.

As a letter d is

the fourth letter of the.

As a numeral d is

cardinal number five hundred (500).

As a symbol d is

deuterium, when it needs to be distinguished from ordinary hydrogen.

boston

English

(wikipedia Boston)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the informal capital of New England, located in the northeastern United States.
    • And here’s to good old Boston ,
    The land of the bean and the cod,
    Where Lowells talk only to Cabots
    And Cabots talk only to God.
  • A town in Lincolnshire, England.
  • A settlement in Belize
  • A city in Georgia, USA
  • A town in Indiana
  • A village in Kyrgyzstan
  • A town in New York
  • A CDP in Pennsylvania
  • A municipality in the Philippines
  • A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
  • A settlement in Suriname
  • A CDP and an unincorporated community in Virginia
  • An eighteenth-century trick-taking card game for four players, with two packs of fifty-two cards each.

    • Synonyms

    * (Massachusetts city) Beantown

    Derived terms

    * Bostonian, Bostonese, Bostonite * Boston baked beans * Boston Brahmin * Boston butt * Boston crab * Boston cream pie * Boston fern * Boston marriage * Boston Mess

    Descendants

    * Abenaki: (l), (l) * Klamath-Modoc: (l)

    d

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=c, next=e, image= (wikipedia d)

    Etymology 1

    Modification of capital letter D, from (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The fourth letter of the .

    • Usage notes

    The letter d is used in the alphabets of many languages, and in several romanization systems of non-Latin scripts to represent the (.

    See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Etymology 2

    Lower case form of upper case roman numeral D, a standardization of D or notch.

    Alternative forms

    * D,

    Numeral

  • cardinal number five hundred (500).
    • Usage notes
    With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as d, it represents five hundred thousand (500,000).
    See also
    * Lesser roman numeral symbol: * Greater roman numeral symbol: *

    Etymology 3

    Symbol

    (Voiced alveolar plosive) (head)
  • the (path-independent, ) differential of a quantity
  • voiced alveolar plosive

    • See also

    * (mathematics) {{Letter , page=D , NATO=Delta , Morse=-·· , Character=D4 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin D.png, Capital and lowercase versions of D , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter D.png, Uppercase and lowercase D in Fraktur Image:Uncial d.png, Approximate form of upper case letter D in uncial script that was the source for lower case d ----