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Princeton

Princeton

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A private university in New Jersey known for strong research and teaching
  • proper noun
  • /ˈprɪnstən/
translation icon : Universidad de Princeton
  • This is Alonzo Church, who was a mathematician at Princeton University in the United States.
  • Princeton University
  • Professor at Princeton
  • Princeton University Press

And then when he returned, he went back to Princeton where he got his PhD.

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Examples

  • Henry Norris Russell was at one point the chair of the Department of Astrophysics at Princeton University.

  • She's attending Princeton this fall.

  • Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University.

  • I heard you applied for a position at Princeton.

  • Hey, I think that guy got into Princeton.

  • Listen, I got a scholarship to Princeton.

  • When I was younger, I got a scholarship to Princeton.

  • And the good news is that Bernanke is going back to Princeton in a few months.

  • Deborah A. Kaple is a research scholar and lecturer at Princeton University.

    Academic text (2011)
  • She is excited to start her studies at Princeton this fall.

Synonyms

Princeton University
vsPrinceton
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A university in Princeton, New Jersey known for excellent teaching and research

is a prestigious university in New Jersey without stressing research reputation

Compounds

Princeton WordNet
  • Specialized
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A large computer database of English words with their meanings created at Princeton University

Surface Forms

Princeton main

Etymology

Princeton for the university simply uses the town's name (from Prince + -ton meaning 'town'), so the school's name shows where it is located.