Princeton

American  

[prins-tuhn] / ˈprɪns tən /

noun

1. a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.

2. 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).

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Princeton British  

/ ˈprɪnstən /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Bedbrook and Nath will continue this work as they establish their own laboratories at Princeton University this July, building on the tools and insights developed at Stanford.

From Science Daily

U.S. households worth $30 million or more, according to a Princeton economics professor’s analysis of Fed data.

From The Wall Street Journal

He attended Princeton, but when a classmate was killed in Vietnam in 1967, he joined the Marines.

From The Wall Street Journal

After studying politics at Princeton University, he joined the Marines and was sent to Vietnam in 1968.

From BBC

For the two Princeton professors, this was an opportunity for a natural experiment.

From The Wall Street Journal