Ivy League — meaning in English
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English meaning
- Ivy League noun A group of eight long-established, highly selective private universities in the north-eastern United States: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Yale. Formally it is their athletic conference, but the name is used for the schools themselves.
Senses
Ivy League is used for these senses in English:
- Ivy League (US, education, politics) An association of eight universities in the USA, known for high quality. [from 1935]
Ivy League — full definition
- noun A group of eight long-established, highly selective private universities in the north-eastern United States: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Yale. Formally it is their athletic conference, but the name is used for the schools themselves.
- adjective Belonging to or characteristic of these universities, and by extension suggesting elite education, wealth and social polish.