Cambridge

[ keym-brij ]

noun

1. a city in Cambridgeshire, in E England: famous university founded in 12th century.
2. a city in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
3. Cambridgeshire.
4. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada.
5. a city in E Ohio.

Cambridge

/ ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ /

noun

1. a city in E England, administrative centre of Cambridgeshire, on the River Cam: centred around the university, founded in the 12th century: electronics, biotechnology. Pop: 117 717 (2001) Medieval Latin nameCantabrigia
2. short for Cambridgeshire
3. a city in the US, in E Massachusetts: educational centre, with Harvard University (1636) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Pop: 101 587 (2003 est)

Cambridge

1. City in Massachusetts , near Boston .

Notes

Location of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Other Words From

• pre-Cambridge adjective

Example Sentences

That’s the good news, says Peter Fretwell, a geographer at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, England.

From Science News

Now, in a paper posted online on July 7, Thomas Bloom of Cambridge and Olof Sisask of Stockholm University have proved the conjecture when it comes to evenly spaced triples, like 5, 7 and 9.

From Quanta Magazine

He works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

From Science News For Students

Ron Rivest is a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

From Science News For Students

A fluid dynamicist, Bourouiba works at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

From Science News For Students

She is the author of Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime and Terrorism (Cambridge University Press).

From The Daily Beast

In the early 1960s Cambridge University was a hotbed of cultural and social insurrection.

From The Daily Beast

Throughout its 800-year history, Cambridge University has guarded jealously its absolute right to free speech.

From The Daily Beast

So I started going into Cambridge two or three times a week and I would just buy all these books.

From The Daily Beast

“Everywhere we find them we find them enormous,” he told a Cambridge University blog called The Naked Scientists.

From The Daily Beast

Herbert Marsh, professor of divinity in the university of Cambridge, England, died.

From Project Gutenberg

This is still the attitude of one who receives a degree at Cambridge from the Vice-chancellor.

From Project Gutenberg

Cambridge is rich in traditions, as any university might be that numbered Oliver Cromwell among its students.

From Project Gutenberg

At Cambridge we were within easy reach of the scenes of the Protector's early life.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a student at Cambridge and for several years was a farmer near Ely, being a tenant on the cathedral lands.

From Project Gutenberg