Harvard
Americannoun
-
John, 1607–38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.
-
a city in central Massachusetts.
-
Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,420 feet (4,398 meters).
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Harvard’s Joseph Nye taught that foreign policy morality requires integrating intentions, means and consequences.
From Los Angeles Times
Jennifer Spence, director of the Arctic Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, said when it came to mining in Greenland, "it's all still about potential".
From BBC
All of which suggests something profound: The answer to America’s core educational challenge is in Hattiesburg, not Harvard.
The German research echoes recent reports by the Budget Lab at Yale and economists at Harvard Business School, finding that only a small fraction of the tariff costs were being borne by foreign producers.
Though there were hiring rebounds at some of the most elite programs—including Harvard and Columbia universities—hiring from many top-tier business schools remains below prepandemic levels.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.