PRINCETON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Princeton mean? 

• PRINCETON (noun)
  The noun PRINCETON has 2 senses:

1. a university town in central New Jersey

2. a university in New Jersey

  Familiarity information: PRINCETON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRINCETON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university town in central New Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Meronyms (parts of "Princeton"):

Princeton; Princeton University (a university in New Jersey)

Holonyms ("Princeton" is a part of...):

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A university in New Jersey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Princeton; Princeton University

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Princeton" is a part of...):

Princeton (a university town in central New Jersey)

Holonyms ("Princeton" is a member of...):

Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)

 Context examples 

Now a team of Princeton University scientists has identified one more effect: oxygen in the world's oceans increased, changing the conditions for life.

(Tectonic collision 50 million years ago led to widespread ocean changes, National Science Foundation)

Princeton University researchers are using diamonds to help create a communication network that relies on a property of subatomic particles known as their quantum state.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A new analysis by Princeton University researchers explains why this trend is likely to continue.

(Why are big storms bringing so much more rain?, National Science Foundation)

He is a professor at Princeton University.

(Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics, Wikinews)

The scientists, led by Eun-Hwa Kim, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, examined a type of wave that travels through the magnetosphere.

(Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth, National Science Foundation)

Led by Zuzana Burivalova, tropical forest ecologist at Princeton University in the United States, the study recorded almost 1,300 hours of sounds in July 2015.

(Scientists record the sound of intact forest, SciDev.Net)

Research at the Center is integrated with the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, School of Public Health, and several schools and departments of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Princeton University.

(Cancer Institute of New Jersey, NCI Thesaurus)

Princeton University scientists who were conducting their field work on the island of Daphne Major, noticed a non-native male bird — cactus finches — on the island in 1981.

(Researchers report rapid formation of new bird species in Galápagos islands, Wikinews)

The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists.

(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)

We found that, contrary to previous scientific knowledge, unhealthy trees have a higher likelihood of being female, and the size of the tree doesn't seem to influence what sex a tree is, said lead author Jennifer Blake-Mahmud, a botanist at Princeton University.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)