CAMDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Camden mean? 

• CAMDEN (noun)
  The noun CAMDEN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CAMDEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Camden" is a part of...):

Garden State; Jersey; N.J.; New Jersey; NJ (a Mid-Atlantic state on the Atlantic; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

Anne would have been particularly obliged to her cousin, if he would have walked by her side all the way to Camden Place, without saying a word.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

We are in Camden House, which stands opposite to our own old quarters.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our conversation, afterwards, took a more worldly turn; Mr. Micawber telling us that he found Camden Town inconvenient, and that the first thing he contemplated doing, when the advertisement should have been the cause of something satisfactory turning up, was to move.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Anne had called several times on her friend, before the existence of such a person was known in Camden Place.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It appears to me, that what Mr. Micawber has to do, in justice to himself, in justice to his family, and I will even go so far as to say in justice to society, by which he has been hitherto overlooked, is to advertise in all the papers; to describe himself plainly as so-and-so, with such and such qualifications and to put it thus: “Now employ me, on remunerative terms, and address, post-paid, to W. M., Post Office, Camden Town.””

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Miss Carteret, with still less to say, was so plain and so awkward, that she would never have been tolerated in Camden Place but for her birth.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The time he had mentioned was more than out, and he lived in a little street near the Veterinary College at Camden Town, which was principally tenanted, as one of our clerks who lived in that direction informed me, by gentlemen students, who bought live donkeys, and made experiments on those quadrupeds in their private apartments.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Prettier musings of high-wrought love and eternal constancy, could never have passed along the streets of Bath, than Anne was sporting with from Camden Place to Westgate Buildings.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was invited again to Camden Place the very evening of his return; but from Thursday to Saturday evening his absence was certain.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Are you going near Camden Place?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)