Princeton

[ prins-tuh n ]

/ ˈprɪns tən /

noun

a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.

Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,197 feet (4327 meters).

Example sentences from the Web for princeton

Margot Canaday here at Princeton writes on sexuality and American politics.

Thank Congress, Not LBJ for Great Society |Julian Zelizer, Scott Porch |January 4, 2015 |DAILY BEAST
As a student at Princeton University, his primary interest, he later admitted, was playing basketball.

Honoring The Late John Doar, A Nearly Forgotten Hero Of The Civil Rights Era |Gary May |November 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Princeton is still publishing new volumes of the Jefferson papers.

What Lincoln Could Teach Fox News |Scott Porch |November 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But Sam Wang of Princeton stands almost alone in forecasting that the Democrats will just barely hold their Senate majority.

Meet the One Numbers-Cruncher Who Foresees Democrats Holding the Senate |Linda Killian |September 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

He vividly remembers Shirley Tilghman, then the president of Princeton, asking for his prediction.

Meet the One Numbers-Cruncher Who Foresees Democrats Holding the Senate |Linda Killian |September 16, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
But while he slept the American commander, marched to his rear and fell upon that part of the army left at Princeton.

An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America |J. P. MacLean
They had an air of showing him about Princeton as if he must absorb its beauties for the last time.

The Guarded Heights |Wadsworth Camp
But Holden tumbled and several Princeton men were on him in a jiffy.

Football Days |William H. Edwards
In the eastern portion of Princeton the underlying rock is a kind of micaceous schist, and in the western is granitic gneiss.

Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884 |Various
The uncertainty regarding who was to play right end was banished in the Brown game which preceded the Princeton game by one week.

Frank Armstrong at College |Matthew M. Colton

British Dictionary definitions for princeton

Princeton

/ (ˈprɪnstən) /

noun

a town in central New Jersey: settled by Quakers in 1696; an important educational centre, seat of Princeton University (founded at Elizabeth in 1747 and moved here in 1756); scene of the battle (1777) during the War of American Independence in which Washington's troops defeated the British on the university campus. Pop: 13 577 (2003 est)

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