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Cambridge
[ keym-brij ]
noun
- a city in Cambridgeshire, in E England: famous university founded in 12th century.
- a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- a city in E Ohio.
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 nameCantabrigia
- See Cambridgeshireshort 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)
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Example Sentences
She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).
In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.
Throughout its 800-year history, Cambridge University has guarded jealously its absolute right to free speech.
So I started going into Cambridge two or three times a week and I would just buy all these books.
“Everywhere we find them we find them enormous,” he told a Cambridge University blog called The Naked Scientists.
Herbert Marsh, professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge, England, died.
This is still the attitude of one who receives a degree at Cambridge from the Vice-chancellor.
Cambridge is rich in traditions, as any university might be that numbered Oliver Cromwell among its students.
At Cambridge we were within easy reach of the scenes of the Protector's early life.
He was a student at Cambridge and for several years was a farmer near Ely, being a tenant on the cathedral lands.
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