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trenton
/ˈtɹɛntən/
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What does trenton mean?
proper noun
- The capital city of New Jersey, and the county seat of Mercer County.
- A city, the county seat of Gilchrist County, Florida.
- A city, the county seat of Dade County, Georgia, United States.
More meanings (18)
proper noun
- A city in Kentucky.
- A town in Maine.
- A city, the county seat of Grundy County, Missouri.
- A village, the county seat of Hitchcock County, Nebraska.
- A town in Oneida County, New York.
- A town, the county seat of Jones County, North Carolina.
- A town in Williams County, North Dakota.
- A city in Ohio.
- A town in South Carolina.
- A city, the county seat of Gibson County, Tennessee.
- A city in Texas.
- A town in Utah.
- A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Pierce County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Washington County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A community in Quinte West, Ontario, Canada.
- A male given name transferred from the place name.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtɹɛntən/
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When the express stopped at Trenton, Aubrey could easily have turned a howitzer upon that innocent city and blasted it into rubble.
They accordingly were at the expense and trouble of going to Trenton, and there he refus'd to perform his promise, to their great loss and disappointment.
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The city of Trenton, New Jersey, is built on a gravel terrace whose surface is between forty and fifty feet above the flood plain of the Delaware.
If the cheering of the Calliope by the crew of the Trenton binds closer together the citizens of the two English-speaking nations, should its companion scene, no less thrilling, be forgotten--when the Trenton bore down upon the stranded Vandalia to her almost certain destruction, and the encouraging cheer of the flag-ship was answered by a response, faint, uncertain, and despairing?
In America the discoveries at Trenton, N.J., and at various places in Delaware, Ohio, Minnesota, and elsewhere, along the southern edge of the drift of the Glacial epochs, clinched the new scientific truth yet more firmly; and the statement made by an eminent American authority is, that "man was on this continent when the climate and ice of Greenland extended to the mouth of New York harbour."