Definition of Camden

1. Noun. A city in southwestern New Jersey on the Delaware River near Philadelphia.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Garden State, Jersey, New Jersey, Nj

Definition of Camden

1. Proper noun. An inner London borough comprising Hampstead, Holborn and St Pancras. ¹

2. Proper noun. A town name in various other locales. ¹

3. Proper noun. (surname habitational from=Old English) ¹

4. Proper noun. (surnames male given name), modern transferred use of the surname. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Camden

Camboj
Cambozola
Cambria
Cambrian
Cambrian period
Cambrians
Cambridge
Cambridge University
Cambridge blue
Cambro-
Cambro-Briton
Cambro-Britons
Cambs
Cambyses
Camden
Camdenite
Camdenites
CamelCase
Camelidae
Camelina
Camelina sativa
Camellia State
Camellia japonica
Camellia sinensis
Camelopardalis
Camelot
Camelus
Camelus bactrianus
Camelus dromedarius

Literary usage of Camden

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Under date of 1608 camden enters in his ' Memorabilia ' the words ' Annales ... One of the latter was camden, whose appointment was dated 10 May 1610. ..."

2. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"In this he asserts that during an interview with camden he told him that the ... To which at first camden answered that, ' Peradventure he had done so ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1840)
"THE MARQUESS camden, KG Oct. 8. At bis scat, the Wilderness, Kent, in his 82d year, the Most Hon. John Jeffreys Pratt, first Marquess Cam- den and Earl of ..."

4. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1896)
"The objective point of his campaign was the town of camden. ... Two roads led from Hillsborough to camden. The westerly route passed through Salisbury and ..."

5. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1895)
"He was married, in 1877, to Fannie A. Coates, daughter of John and Rebecca Coates, of camden, N. J? GRAHAM, Isabella, teacher, was born in Lanarkshire, ..."

6. Annual Report by New Jersey State Geologist, New Jersey Geological Survey (1856)
"A branch of the camden and Amboy road from Burlington to Mount Holly, in the county of ... camden and Atlantic Railroad. This is an agricultural road, ..."

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