Meanings
proper noun
- 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
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APA
Manhattanville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Manhattanville
MLA
“Manhattanville.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Manhattanville. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Manhattanville,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Manhattanville.
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