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IVY LEAGUE

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• IVY LEAGUE (noun)
The noun IVY LEAGUE has 1 sense:

1. a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige

Familiarity information: IVY LEAGUE used as a noun is very rare.

• IVY LEAGUE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Ivy League" is a kind of...):

conference; league (an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members)

Meronyms (members of "Ivy League"):

Brown; Brown University (a university in Rhode Island)

Columbia; Columbia University (a university in New York City)

Cornell University (a university in Ithaca, New York)

Dartmouth; Dartmouth College (a college in New Hampshire)

Harvard; Harvard University (a university in Massachusetts)

Princeton; Princeton University (a university in New Jersey)

Penn; Pennsylvania; University of Pennsylvania (a university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Yale; Yale University (a university in Connecticut)

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