Manhattanville

English

Etymology

From Manhattan +‎ -ville.

Proper noun

Manhattanville

  1. A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York.
    • 1973 June 2, Iver Peterson, “Campus Notes Grant Made for Study‐Incentive Plan”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      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.
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