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Noun: Harvard  haa(r)-vu(r)d
  1. A university in Massachusetts
    - Harvard University
     
  2. American philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the Massachusetts college that now bears his name (1607-1638)
    - John Harvard

Type of: altruist, philanthrope [archaic], philanthropist, school [N. Amer], uni [Brit, informal], university

Part of: Cambridge, Ivy League

Encyclopedia: Harvard, Massachusetts