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

Sayre defied his Mexican immigrant parents again by earning a master’s in public affairs from Princeton University instead of following his dad into railroad engineering, before earning a law degree from UC Berkeley.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026

According to first author Veena Krishnaraj, an undergraduate student at Princeton University, this strategy prevents the AI from having to "digest everything at once."

From Science Daily • Jun. 11, 2026

Princeton University’s endowment manager, Princo, reversed its voluntary pledge to divest from publicly traded fossil fuel companies.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Beyond the juicy and sordid details, there’s the redemption tale of Hoyt Richards, a Princeton grad who became the first male supermodel in the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

If in high school I’d felt as if I were representing my neighborhood, now at Princeton I was representing my race.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama