Princeton

American  

[prins-tuhn] / ˈprɪns tən /

noun

1. a borough in central New Jersey: battle 1777.

2. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks of the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,197 feet (4,327 meters).

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Princeton British  

/ ˈprɪnstən /

noun

1. a town in central New Jersey: settled by Quakers in 1696; an important educational centre, seat of Princeton University (founded at Elizabeth in 1747 and moved here in 1756); scene of the battle (1777) during the War of American Independence in which Washington's troops defeated the British on the university campus. Pop: 13 577 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

When she was artistic director of the McCarter Theatre, she made the Princeton venue one of his American homes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

The research team, led by Christopher Griffin of Princeton University, focused on the original Nanotyrannus fossil, a skull housed at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

A peer-reviewed study published in February by researchers at Stanford and Princeton makes the costs of this problem visible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

He is a lecturer in the economics department at Princeton University and a partner at Cornwall Capital, an investment fund based in New York.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Craig, meanwhile, had enrolled at Princeton University, vacating his back-porch room on Euclid Avenue, leaving a six-foot-six, two-hundred-pound gap in our daily lives.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama