Bennington

American  

[ben-ing-tuhn] / ˈbɛn ɪŋ tən /

noun

1. a town in SW Vermont: defeat of British by the Green Mountain Boys 1777.

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Bennington British  

/ ˈbɛnɪŋtən /

noun

1. a town in SW Vermont: the site of a British defeat (1777) in the War of American Independence. Pop: 15 637 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

“There are two competing priorities at Bennington: One is to have a community that is open to many; the other is to bring revenue into a small New England liberal-arts college that needs it.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

Folan attended Bennington College for two years, and then took off for Rome to study “Italian art and Italian men, in that order,” she told the Cincinnati Enquirer—but “whatever I was looking for wasn’t there.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

The court heard Lonsdale, of Squires View, Long Bennington, Lincolnshire, had no previous convictions and admitted her guilt at her first court appearance.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

After graduating from Bennington College in Vermont, he worked in consulting, then moved to Los Angeles to get a masters in economics at the University of Southern California.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025

Through the screen door we could see a dark, cool lobby and, behind the desk, a man of about sixty, his half-moon glasses pulled low on his nose, reading a copy of the Bennington Banner.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt