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Prince⋅ton

[prins-tuhn]
–noun
1. a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777. 12,035.
2. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,197 ft. (4327 m).
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Prince·ton   (prĭn'stən)   
A borough of central New Jersey north-northeast of Trenton. Founded by Quakers in 1696, it is the seat of Princeton University (established in 1746 as the College of New Jersey and renamed in 1896). George Washington defeated the British here in January 1777. Population: 13,700.
Princeton, Mount  
A mountain, 4,330 m (14,197 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.
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