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

Mr. Orkaby is a faculty associate at Harvard and author of “Yemen: What Everyone Needs to Know.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Big brains associated with the school have collected 101 Nobel Prizes—a tally that ranks behind only those nerdbots at Harvard and Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal

He went on to study government at Harvard University, where he got involved in Republican politics and joined a fraternity.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Talarico, a state representative, earned a master’s degree in education from Harvard and is working toward a divinity degree at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

From The Wall Street Journal

Born in South Africa and raised in Israel, Iran, and England, Guy Spier External link received a degree in economics at Oxford and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

From Barron's