Cambridge

[keym-brij]

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.

Cambridge

/ 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)

Cambridge

1. City in Massachusetts, near Boston.

Location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Other Word Forms

• pre-Cambridge adjective

Example Sentences

He is due to appear at Cambridge Crown Court on 1 December.

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Perhaps the masters of the dark arts, dirty tricks or marginal gains, depending on how you view such things, were Cambridge United in the early 1990s.

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He went on to study at Cambridge University.

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She studied art history at Cambridge, before launching a TV career in her twenties.

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The search began inauspiciously enough, when Watson arrived at the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University in late 1951, supposedly to study proteins.

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