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IVY LEAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)