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Manhattanville

Manhattanville proper noun: a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.

Proper noun

Manhattanville

  1. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
    • Manhattanville College in Purchase, N. Y., has joined a small but growing [movement] back to the practice of awarding letter grades after a year's experiment with a nonletter system that was seen as a way of reducing the competitiveness and authoritarian quality of [letter] grading.1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times

Origin of Manhattanville

From Manhattan + -ville.

Questions about Manhattanville

What does Manhattanville mean?
Manhattanville means a neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
What part of speech is Manhattanville?
Manhattanville is a proper noun.

Words near Manhattanville in the dictionary

  1. Manhattanize
  2. Manhattanized
  3. Manhattanizes
  4. Manhattanizing
  5. manhattans
  6. Manhattanville
  7. Manhattoes
  8. manhaul
  9. manhauled
  10. manhauling
  11. manhauls

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