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Ivy Leaguer

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.
2.
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Ivy League colleges or their students and graduates.

Origin:
1935–40

Ivy Leaguer, noun
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Ivy League definition


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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