harvard
n. countablen. a very famous and old university in the United States. People often use the name to talk about high quality, wealth, or success in education.
n. a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, established in 1636. Often used metonymically to represent elite academic status or the American educational establishment.
She studied law at Harvard.
After years of hard work, he finally received an acceptance letter from Harvard.
The university's endowment, the largest of its kind globally, allows Harvard to fund groundbreaking research across a vast array of scientific and humanistic disciplines.
A variant of Harward reflecting the merger of /v/ and /w/ in the dialects of southeastern England; thus from Middle English Herward, Herreward, itself from Old English Hereweard and a doublet of Harward and Hereward. Compare German Herwarth.
Usually treated as a proper noun and capitalized; when referring to the institution as a whole, it does not take an article.