Back Bay

American  

noun

1. a prosperous residential and commercial area of Boston, Massachusetts.

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back bay British  

noun

1. a small bay or inlet of a lake

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Example Sentences

“There’s a reason that younger people tend to have high-deductible health plans, and obviously it’s affordability,” Robert Jeter, a financial adviser with Back Bay Financial Planning and Investments, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Irmer said the two walked around the Back Bay before entering an apartment building that was under renovation at the time, prosecutors said.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2023

Under that scenario, the streets of Boston's Back Bay we are gazing out across at would become capillaries of the Charles River.

From Salon • May 20, 2023

But following them from Hopkinton to Boston’s Back Bay on the third Monday in April are 30,000 others who are not in it to win it, or maybe not even to achieve a personal best.

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2023

We were going to stay with Gay’s cousins, Bob and Shirley Zimmerman, who lived on the top two floors of a Back Bay town house.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter