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cambridge
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English Grontabricc (c.745) "Bridge on the River Granta" (a Celtic river name, of obscure origin). The change to Cante- and later Cam- was due to Norman influence. The river name Cam is a back-formation in this case, but Cam also was a legitimate Celtic ...
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 1101 Housing Units (2000): 483 Land area (2000): 0.888953 sq. miles (2.302378 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.888953 sq. miles (2.302378 sq. km) FIPS code: 12225 Located within: Wisconsin ...
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Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire , England, on the River Cam about north of London . At the United Kingdom Census 2011 , its population was 123,867, including 24,488 students. There is archaeological evidence of settlement ...
Usage examples of cambridge.
The general had since established a command at Cambridge, and it was there that Adams was headed.
And in this bleakest of hours, heading for Cambridge, and on to Philadelphia, Adams saw his way clearer and with greater resolve than ever in his life.
WITH JOSEPH BASS AT HIS SIDE, Adams crossed Long Bridge over the frozen Charles River and rode into Cambridge in the early afternoon of January 24, 1776, in time to dine with General Washington at the temporary quarters of Colonel Thomas Mifflin near Harvard Yard.
They rode out past the pickets and campfires of Cambridge and at Framingham stopped to see for themselves the guns from Ticonderoga, Adams making careful note of the inventory--58 cannon ranging in size from 3- and 4-pounders to one giant 24-pounder that weighed more than two tons.
On September 1, Adams was off to Cambridge, to the First Church at the corner of Harvard Yard, where some 250 delegates gathered.
The last course that I heard from Agassiz in Cambridge began on October 23, 1867, and closed on January 11, 1868.
Philby, Angleton remembered, had joined a socialist society at Cambridge but had later severed his ties with the socialists and covered his tracks by associating with rightist groups and people.
Simon was a class ahead of Antonio and me at Cambridge, but I believe they knew each other.
English Presbyterian divine, was born of Huguenot descent in Walbrook, London, in February 1600, and educated at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where his opposition to the Arminian party, then powerful in that society, excluded him from a fellowship.
Afterwards he would join his father and brothers on the royal yacht, then go on to Balmoral, where Victoria would join him again for a week, and then they would go back to Cambridge.
It must have seemed incomprehensible to such a Cantabrigian that we should ever have been willing to leave Cambridge, and in fact I do not well understand it myself.
Cambridge, what the Harvard types call Cantabrigian, a little English cottage.
Browne, Revised Translation of the Chahar Maqala, Cambridge and Leyden, 1921, pp.
A Harvard economist of worldwide reputation had recently been persuaded to come over to Cambridge, in a rare triumph of counterflow, and had brought a team with him.
In October 1919 he heads for Cambridge, and falls in love with a young emigree living in London, Sonia Zilanov, mercurial, critical, a tease, a flirt, a challenge promising little hope of success.