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Ivy League

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a group of colleges in the NE U.S. forming a league for intercollegiate sports: often used to describe the fashions, standards, attitudes, etc. associated with their students

Origin: < the fact that many of the buildings are traditionally ivy-covered

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Ivy Leaguer noun

See Ivy League in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

An association of eight universities and colleges in the northeast United States, comprising Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale.

adjective

Of or resembling the traditions of the Ivy League.

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Origin: So called because of the ivy-covered older college buildings

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