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.