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Princeton
[ prins-tuhn ]
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 (4,327 meters).
Princeton
/ ˈɪԲə /
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)
Example Sentences
Nick went to Princeton and graduated with all of the Ivy League haughtiness, if not the GPA or success, associated with such a diploma.
And then, when I went to college, I left Ohio, and I went to college on the East Coast, I went to Princeton, and everything was based on New York.
Now 82, she is an emeritus professor of religion at Princeton, where she’s taught for more than four decades.
The lack of precision in the committee’s methodology is “obviously laughable,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of international affairs at Princeton University who studies the rise and fall of constitutional governments.
Eight years later, the first football game was played in America, where fans were believed to have dined from a wagon while watching Rutgers and Princeton battle it out on the field.
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