Harvard definition

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(person) 1607-38; Eng. clergyman, in America: 1st benefactor of Harvard College.
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A surname​.
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Any of a number of places named for persons with the surname, including a city in Massachusetts.
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A university in Cambridge, MA named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
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Origin of harvard

  • Patronymic surname from a Middle English variant of Hereward.

    From Wiktionary

Harvard Sentence Examples

  • Jeans, sneakers and a Harvard tee shirt made up her attire.

  • We have someone from Harvard here who can't figure out the generator.

  • In 1870-71 he lectured on psychology at Harvard.

  • In 1869 he gave a course of lectures at Harvard on the Positive Philosophy; next year he was history tutor; in 1871 he delivered thirty-five lectures on the Doctrine of Evolution, afterwards revised and expanded as Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy (1874); and between 1872 and 1879 he was assistant-librarian.

  • As an authority on the Inquisition he stood in the highest rank of modern historians, and distinctions were conferred on him by the universities of Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Giessen and Moscow.

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