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harvard
/ˈhɑɹvɚd/
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What does harvard mean?
proper noun
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho, named after the university.
- A city in McHenry County, Illinois.
More meanings (5)
proper noun
- A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts (not the location of the university, which is in Cambridge, Middlesex County).
- A minor city and township in Clay County, Nebraska, named for the university.
- A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
- A person who attends, attended, or is likely to attend Harvard; by extension, a person very successful academically.
- (derogatory) a person who is nerdy, excessively privileged, pretentious
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈhɑɹvɚd/
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The young man had just returned from Harvard College, where he had spent the previous five years.
Now it was that the influence of his Harvard education was seen in both his studies and his works.
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The great controversy between Yale and Harvard now, is, which shall excel in brute force, and foot-ball seems to be the test.
Before he knew it his son had him out to his class-day spread at Harvard, and then he had his son on his hands.
Thus it was no accident that gave birth to universities centuries before the common schools, that made fair Harvard the first flower of our wilderness.