Bostonian
Massachusetts capital dweller
A Bostonian is a person from Boston, Massachusetts.
As an adjective, it describes things associated with the city: Bostonian architecture, a Bostonian accent.
The accent is distinctive—dropping r's after vowels and adding them where they don't belong: "pahk the cah" for "park the car."
Boston baseball club
- Fenway ParkHistoric Boston ballfield
- CelticsBoston basketball franchise
- PatriotsBoston-area NFL franchise
- clam chowderCreamy mollusk soup
lobster roll · marathon · Sam Adams · Dunkin · baked beans · cream pie · MFA · Good Will Hunting
Of occupied territories
- Tea PartySmall-government advocacy movement
- Paul RevereColonial warning horseman
- Freedom TrailBoston's Revolutionary War route
- Bunker Hill1775 Massachusetts engagement
Minutemen · Lexington · Concord · John Adams · Samuel Adams · Puritans · Commonwealth · Plymouth
Boston's Irish neighborhood
- townieNon-student area resident
- nativeOriginating from a place
- localOf this area
- residentOne who inhabits
transplant · Dorchester · Roxbury · Charlestown · Beacon Hill · North End · Somerville · Cambridge
Prestigious Cambridge university
- MITCambridge research university
- NortheasternBoston private university
- TuftsNew England research university
- EmersonAnglo surname, various namesakes
intellectual · research · student · campus · innovation · biotech · hospitals · medical
Evil or slang-excellent
- dialectRegional language variety
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
- yahCasual spoken affirmation
tonic · frappe · bubbler · carriage · rotary · nasal · inflection · intonation
Red Sox
Boston baseball club
- Fenway ParkHistoric Boston ballfield
- CelticsBoston basketball franchise
- PatriotsBoston-area NFL franchise
clam chowder · lobster roll · marathon · Sam Adams · Dunkin · baked beans · cream pie · MFA · Good Will Hunting · The Departed
colonial
Of occupied territories
- Tea PartySmall-government advocacy movement
- Paul RevereColonial warning horseman
- Freedom TrailBoston's Revolutionary War route
Bunker Hill · Minutemen · Lexington · Concord · John Adams · Samuel Adams · Puritans · Commonwealth · Plymouth · John Hancock
Southie
Boston's Irish neighborhood
resident · transplant · Dorchester · Roxbury · Charlestown · Beacon Hill · North End · Somerville · Cambridge · Brookline
Harvard
Prestigious Cambridge university
- MITCambridge research university
- NortheasternBoston private university
- TuftsNew England research university
Emerson · intellectual · research · student · campus · innovation · biotech · hospitals · medical · scholars
wicked
Evil or slang-excellent
- dialectRegional language variety
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- vernacularEveryday regional speech
yah · tonic · frappe · bubbler · carriage · rotary · nasal · inflection · intonation · phonetics
- New EnglandersMainer, Vermonter, Rhode Islander, Yankee, Portlander
- Regional LabelsYankee, Midwesterner, Texan, Californian, New Englander
- accentsBritish accent, Australian accent, New England accent, New York accent, Brooklyn accent
- residentsresident, residents, inhabitants, inhabitant, local
- City DwellersLondoner, Parisian, New Yorker, Berliner, Roman
- NortheasternersNew Englander, New Yorker, Manhattanite, Philadelphian, Pennsylvanian
BostonianAngeleno
Resident of California's largest city
Californian · Texan · San Franciscan · Seattleite · Chicagoan