Cambridge
[keym-brij]
- a city in Cambridgeshire, in E England: famous university founded in 12th century.
- a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- Cambridgeshire.
- a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
- a city in E Ohio.
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Examples from the Web for cambridge
Contemporary Examples
She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).
ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Growing Role of Human Trafficking in 21st Century TerrorismLouise I. Shelley
December 26, 2014
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.
Historical Examples
And of course I was proud when he got his double blue at Cambridge.
The Comrade In WhiteW. H. Leathem
We did not meet at the university; he went to Oxford, and I to Cambridge.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
You and I are to go to Cambridge Terrace about four o'clock to see my uncle.
Roden's CornerHenry Seton Merriman
Yet there were some things she could remember on the other side, dating also from Corry's Cambridge years.
The Coryston FamilyMrs. Humphry Ward
She was the daughter of his Cambridge tutor—penniless, pretty, and musical.
The Coryston FamilyMrs. Humphry Ward
Cambridge
- 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 name: Cantabrigia
- short 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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Word Origin and History for cambridge
Cambridge
Old English Grontabricc (c.745) "Bridge on the River Granta" (a Celtic river name, of obscure origin). The change to Cante- and later Cam- was due to Norman influence. The river name Cam is a back-formation in this case, but Cam also was a legitimate Celtic river name, meaning "crooked."
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Cambridge
City in Massachusetts, near Boston.
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Location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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