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

She saw that applying to Princeton early, for instance, was limiting: Its “Single-Choice Early Action” option prevented early application to other private schools.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Copyright © 2026 by the author and reprinted with permission of Princeton University Press.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026

When she was artistic director of the McCarter Theatre, she made the Princeton venue one of his American homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

"At the time, the prevailing consensus was that the Nanotyrannus holotype skull represented an immature Tyrannosaurus rex, and was not a separate species," said Griffin, assistant professor of geosciences at Princeton.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 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