Ivy Leaguer
noun
a former or current student at an Ivy League university.
Ivy Leaguers
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pluralof Ivy Leaguer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For Ivy Leaguers, this is harder to get into than law school.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
Three former Ivy Leaguers starred for the USC women’s team that went to the Elite Eight for the first time since 1994.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
Then he gets to Washington and he's surrounded by all these Ivy Leaguers because the Democratic Party changes midway through his career.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023
The U.S. figure skating team is stacked with Ivy Leaguers who decided to put their education on hold to fulfill their Olympic dreams once the coronavirus crisis began and classes moved to Zoom anyway.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
But what I especially liked was that its founders were focused less on parachuting Ivy Leaguers into urban communities and more on finding and cultivating talent that was already there.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
