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Ivy League

noun

  1. 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

  1. 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

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Ivy League

  1. 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 Word Forms

  • Ivy Leaguer noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ivy League1

First recorded in 1935–40
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The administration has targeted other private Ivy League institutions including suspending $1bn at Cornell University and $510 million at Brown University.

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The combination of targeted detentions and reports of wide-scale visa revocations have left campuses on edge, from the biggest public universities to elite Ivy League institutions, students and faculty told the BBC.

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“No, you definitely did not,” I said, heaving while cowering from my Ivy League prince.

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More aggressive immigration enforcement actions took place last month, mainly at Ivy League and elite campuses in the Northeast, including Columbia University, where foreign students who supported pro-Palestinian protests were arrested for deportation.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday accused the Ivy League school of "threatening national security" and "bending the knee to antisemitism".

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