Princeton

[ prins-tuhn ]

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).

Princeton

/ 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)

Example Sentences

Leave it to a Princeton man to ask his date what she’s reading.

From Washington Post

I had something of a crisis when I first went to Princeton and graduate school.

From Nautilus

I finished in three years and then went off to do graduate work in mathematics at Princeton.

From Quanta Magazine

Getting just the US on track to zero out emissions across its economy will require massive investments, and they need to start now, according to a study by Princeton researchers released last month.

From MIT Technology Review

I went to Princeton to interview him, during the cold and wet fall of 1992.

From Nautilus

Margot Canaday here at Princeton writes on sexuality and American politics.

From The Daily Beast

As a student at Princeton University, his primary interest, he later admitted, was playing basketball.

From The Daily Beast

Princeton is still publishing new volumes of the Jefferson papers.

From The Daily Beast

But Sam Wang of Princeton stands almost alone in forecasting that the Democrats will just barely hold their Senate majority.

From The Daily Beast

He vividly remembers Shirley Tilghman, then the president of Princeton, asking for his prediction.

From The Daily Beast

Retirement is as pleasing, & desirable to me here as at princeton, or Cohansie!

From Project Gutenberg

Washington finally won the Battle of Princeton, but Mercer was a part of the price he paid.

From Project Gutenberg

He came over for his college course at Princeton, but always rejoined her during his holidays.

From Project Gutenberg

Harvard came nearly a century later, Yale a full century and a half, Princeton more than two centuries.

From Project Gutenberg

Of these, one was the Princeton, the screw-steamer of which the machinery was designed by Ericsson.

From Project Gutenberg