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Trenton

Trenton

34 1.8
The capital city of New Jersey on the Delaware River
  • proper noun
  • /ˈtrɛntən/
: Trenton
  • The three of us met Mr. Sumarsono at the Trenton train station.
  • Trenton, New Jersey
  • Trenton, NJ
  • Trenton, N.J.

So her grandmother lives near Trenton, so we were over.

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Examples

  • Trenton, New Jersey.

  • Your son held a teacher-parent conference yesterday and was planning a class field trip to a French bread factory in Trenton.

  • Hey, have you ever seen Trenton late at night?

  • And if you had to live in Trenton anyway, it was an okay place to raise a family.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • We kept driving, slow but steady, out of Trenton, out onto the highway going north.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Miriam R. Lowi is an assistant professor of political science at Trenton State College.

    Academic text (1995)
  • I was born and raised in a blue-collar chunk of Trenton called the Burg.

  • Yet Princeton has historically had access to good food and top notch education, while Trenton falls far behind.

  • I'll go back to teaching my high school biology class in Trenton, New Jersey.

  • More than 1,000 people in this area of Trenton had to be evacuated.

How Big

metropolis
32 5.2
Trenton
34 1.8
town
∞ 1.0
village
∞ 1.0
hamlet
23 5.0

Surface Forms

Trenton main

Etymology

Trenton comes from the name Trent and the old ending -ton, which means 'town'. So it originally meant 'Trent's town', and that is why it is the name of the city in New Jersey.