Harvard

American  

[hahr-verd] / ˈhɑr vərd /

noun

1. John, 1607–38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.

2. a city in central Massachusetts.

3. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,420 feet (4,398 meters).

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Example Sentences

James Hankins is leaving Harvard after forty years as a history professor.

From The Wall Street Journal

Zhang is also an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, a core institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and an investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

From Science Daily

In 1978, Habener set up his own lab at Harvard’s Massachusetts General Hospital, looking to capitalize on a new technology for cloning genes by studying pancreatic and other hormones.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pierce Cousins hoped to quickly land a job in Boston’s biotech industry after graduating from Harvard University with a bioengineering degree in May.

From The Wall Street Journal

Harvard University’s electricity lawyers have already documented what common sense told everyone here a long time ago: When industrial customers demand more power, regular people end up footing the bill.

From Salon