Cambridge

American  

[keym-brij] / ˈkeɪm brɪdʒ /

noun

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

2. a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.

3. Cambridgeshire.

4. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.

5. a city in E Ohio.

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Cambridge British  

/ ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ /

noun

1. Medieval Latin name: Cantabrigia.  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)

2. short for Cambridgeshire

3. 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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Cambridge Cultural  

1. City in Massachusetts, near Boston.

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Location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Other Word Forms

• pre-Cambridge
  adjective

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Cambridge

On a trip to Cambridge, Maryland, Bond got off the boat and was greeted by around 2,500 Black parents who had traveled great distances to get his ear.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The research grew out of years of international collaboration involving the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, and institutions across Europe and the US.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

“They do pretty well,” said the professor, who spoke to me by phone from an infrastructure conference at Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

The six-page hand-written short story, Pryce's Buoy, has been transcribed in full for the first time and studied by Sarah Dillon, professor of literature at the University of Cambridge.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Sprat went on to acknowledge that there were some hardliners who were so hostile to all aspects of ancient learning that they wanted to abolish Oxford and Cambridge.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton