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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)


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

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

Princeton is still publishing new volumes of the Jefferson papers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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