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Beacon Hill

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Beacon Hill¹

proper noun

  1. A suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
  2. An area of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Soon after, the king's jack was set up at the Fort, and a pair of colors at Beacon Hill: which gave notice to some thousands of soldiers on Charlestown side that the controversy was now to be ended; and multitudes would have been there, but that there was no need.
  3. metonymically The Massachusetts state legislature and government. Winchester approved the suggestion. Beacon Hill passed the enabling legislation, and the town voters ratified it.
  4. A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.

Beacon Hill²

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Calque of Cantonese 煙墩山 /烟墩山.

proper noun

  1. A hill in Sha Tin district, Hong Kong. As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Ruixue Zhang finds that the city offers some incredible views… for those brave enough to scale Beacon Hill.
  2. A neighbourhood of Kowloon Tong, Kowloon City district, Hong Kong.

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@misc{beacon_hill_2026,
  title = {Beacon Hill},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/beacon%20hill},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}