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CHARLESTOWN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Charlestown mean? 

CHARLESTOWN (noun)
  The noun CHARLESTOWN has 1 sense:

1. a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CHARLESTOWN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity (a surrounding or nearby region)

Meronyms (parts of "Charlestown"):

Breed's Hill (a hill in Charlestown that was the site of the battle of Bunker Hill in 1775)

Holonyms ("Charlestown" 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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