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Noun: Yale  yeyl
  1. A university in Connecticut
    - Yale University
     
  2. English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honour (1649-1721)
    - Elihu Yale

Derived forms: Yales

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

Part of: Ivy League, New Haven

Encyclopedia: Yale, Oklahoma