West Point
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4.1
- proper noun
- /wɛst pɔɪnt/
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West Point
- Many distinguished leaders have graduated from West Point.
- West Point Military Academy
- West Point cadets
- West Point graduate
Who was the Superintendent of West Point when the war broke out?
- Who was the Superintendent of West Point when the war broke out?
- And this guy, I mean, his book could stand West Point or Sandhurst.
- And man, this is the guy that played lacrosse at West Point.
- So Baghdad has just fallen and I get on the secure telephone and I'm talking to my best friend from West Point days three or four years, my roommate at West Point.
- I give talks to various athletic teams and various groups of cadets within the organisational structure of West Point.
- But anyway, Simon, what I want to get was you're a West Point graduate, you know, which is a prestigious military school, and people don't know that.
- There was the New York Times, their headline was like, Trump speaks to West Point and paints picture of the future.
- He says, I will let you leave the army and I'll be reconciled with you, but you're going to go to West Point.
- Ryan was a Marine, Jim was a West Point Army Special Army Ranger, the whole bit in the Special Forces.
- But in, in, in Clauswitz, this, this people, people hadn't read this very closely, it turns out, even at West Point.
- Now, what's nice about West Point is West Point started saying that is a very tall hurdle for any young person.
Examples
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West Point graduate with honors.
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By David Katz. David Katz is a West Point graduate, former Green Beret captain, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
Academic text (2011) -
Gonna make it to West Point yet, are we?
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I went to West Point.
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I can get you into West Point.
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The best friend you ever had was the man who got you into West Point.
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His first trip to the United States was to attend West Point.
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My parents were pushing for West Point, but I turned it down.
Academic text (2004) -
I was a cadet at West Point.
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General Greg Pulver graduated West Point in the same class as Glen.
Synonyms
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4.9
A school at West Point that trains people to be officers in the United States Army
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3.5
A school that trains people to be officers in the United States Army, often called West Point
Surface Forms
Morphology
West + Point
The combination 'West' + 'Point' transparently signals a place (a western point or geographic location), so a B1 learner who knows the words will infer it is a location. However, the specific reference to the United States Military Academy is arbitrary and requires cultural/world knowledge beyond the literal constituents, so the full meaning is not predictable from the parts alone.
Etymology
West Point comes from a simple place name: a point of land on the west bank of the Hudson River where the river turns. Because that high spot was easy to defend, the U.S. Army built a school there, so today West Point means the famous 'army academy'.