Cambridge

[ keym-brij ]

/ ˈkeɪm brɪdʒ /

noun

a city in Cambridgeshire, in E England: famous university founded in 12th century.

a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

Cambridgeshire.

a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.

a city in E Ohio.

OTHER WORDS FROM Cambridge

pre-Cam·bridge, adjective

Example sentences from the Web for cambridge

She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century Terrorism |Louise I. Shelley |December 26, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.

Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius? |Clive Irving |December 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Throughout its 800-year history, Cambridge University has guarded jealously its absolute right to free speech.

To Stop ISIS, Britain Is Set to Stop Free Speech |Nico Hines |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
So I started going into Cambridge two or three times a week and I would just buy all these books.

James Patterson Goes Full ‘Fahrenheit 451’ With Burning Book Video |William O’Connor |November 25, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

“Everywhere we find them we find them enormous,” he told a Cambridge University blog called The Naked Scientists.

Hunting for a Real-Life Hagrid |Nina Strochlic |November 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
His work at Cambridge so offended the students that they at one time broke up the services.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) |Augustus De Morgan
And our cadet battalions are making themselves very much at home at Oxford and Cambridge.

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War |Punch
The Cambridge specimens manifestly belong to at least three genera.

Dragons of the Air |H. G. Seeley
This Prize, which is kept up by the interest accruing every three years, has been awarded at Cambridge regularly since 1845.

Toronto of Old |Henry Scadding
The influence of Wykeham's building plan may be traced elsewhere also—at Cambridge and even in Scotland.

The Charm of Oxford |J. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for cambridge

Cambridge

/ (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ) /

noun

a city in E England, administrative centre of Cambridgeshire, on the River Cam: centred around the university, founded in the 12th century: electronics, biotechnology. Pop: 117 717 (2001) Medieval Latin name: Cantabrigia

short for Cambridgeshire

a city in the US, in E Massachusetts: educational centre, with Harvard University (1636) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pop: 101 587 (2003 est)

Other words from Cambridge

Related adjective: Cantabrigian

Cultural definitions for cambridge

Cambridge

City in Massachusetts, near Boston.

notes for Cambridge

Location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

Cambridge

noun

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British Dictionary definitions for cambridge

noun

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