IVY LEAGUE Definition & Meaning

Ivy League

noun

a group of colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S., consisting of Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown, having a reputation for high scholastic achievement and social prestige.

adjective

of, relating to, or characteristic of Ivy League colleges or their students and graduates.

Ivy League

noun

1. a group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
2. ( as modifier )
  an Ivy-League education

Ivy League

A group of eight old, distinguished colleges and universities in the East, known for their ivy-covered brick buildings. The members of the Ivy League are Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale Universities; Dartmouth College; and the University of Pennsylvania.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

Ivy Leaguer noun

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of Ivy League¹

First recorded in 1935–40

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Mr Taal was suspended twice by Cornell, an Ivy League school in upstate New York, due to protest activities.

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“I wasn’t Ivy League — a credential the magazine put great store in — and I wasn’t as buttoned-down as some of my peers,” he writes.

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Mr Khalil, a Columbia University graduate and permanent US resident, played a key role in last year's Gaza war protests at the Ivy League campus in New York City.

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Nonetheless, she built a life on books and criticism and teaching at an Ivy League university.

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Many of those who know him credit his remarkable success story to the influence of his wife, Usha Vance, whom he met on the Ivy League campus.

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