noun
a university in Massachusetts (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑Harvard
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑university
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ivy League
• Part Holonyms: ↑Cambridge
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Harvard University [Harvard University]
the oldest US university and usually considered the best. Harvard is one of the ↑Ivy League universities. It was established as a college in 1636 in ↑Cambridge, ↑Massachusetts. Two years later, it was named after John Harvard, a Puritan born in England who had given it money and books. Harvard is especially famous for its faculties (= departments) of law and business. Its library is the oldest in the US and one of the largest. Compare Yale
Useful english dictionary. 2012.