Usually means: Biographer, akin to James Boswell.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Boswell:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boswell: Merriam-Webster
  2. Boswell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Boswell: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Boswell: Vocabulary.com
  5. Boswell: Wordnik
  6. Boswell: Wiktionary
  7. Boswell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Boswell: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. boswell: Dictionary.com
  10. Boswell (horse), Boswell (surname), Boswell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Boswell: Rhymezone
  12. boswell: FreeDictionary.org
  13. boswell: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Boswell: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. Boswell: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boswell (disambiguation), Boswell: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boswell: A Word A Day
  2. Boswell: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boswell: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See boswellian as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Boswell)

noun:  A Scottish habitational surname from Old French of Norman origin from Beuzeville in France.
noun:  James Boswell, biographer of Samuel Johnson.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A hamlet in Elkington parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2790).
noun:  A town in Grant Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  A town in Choctaw County, Oklahoma, United States.
noun:  A borough in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
noun:  A community on Kootenay Lake in the Kootenays, south-east British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  A former cannery town on the Central Coast of British Columbia.
noun:  A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.

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