noun
1. a university in Massachusetts (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑Harvard University
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑university
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ivy League
• Part Holonyms: ↑Cambridge
2. American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
• Syn: ↑John Harvard
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑philanthropist, ↑altruist
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/hahr"veuhrd/, n.
1. John, 1607-38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.
2. a city in central Massachusetts. 12,170.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.