HyperDic: boston_tea_party

English > 1 sense of the expression Boston Tea Party:
NOUNactBoston Tea Partydemonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped / dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor
English > Boston Tea Party: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaningdemonstration (1773) by citizens of Boston who (disguised as Indians) raided three British ships in Boston harbor and dumped / dumped hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor; organized as a protest against taxes on tea.
CategoryhistoryThe discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings
Instance ofdemonstration, manifestationA public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)
RegionUnited States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean
SpanishMotín del Té
CatalanBoston Tea Party

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