BOISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boise mean? 

• BOISE (noun)
  The noun BOISE has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Idaho

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Idaho

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Boise; capital of Idaho

Instance hypernyms:

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

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

Gem State; ID; Id.; Idaho (a state in the Rocky Mountains)

 Context examples 

Its capital is Boise.

(Idaho, NCI Thesaurus)

Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but compounds containing iron, cyanide, and carbon monoxide discovered in carbon-rich meteorites by a team of scientists at Boise State University and NASA may have helped power life on early Earth.

(Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of Life, NASA)