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Har⋅vard

[hahr-verd]
–noun
1. John, 1607–38, English clergyman in the U.S.: principal benefactor of Harvard College, now Harvard University.
2. a city in central Massachusetts. 12,170.
3. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, in the Sawatch Range. 14,420 ft. (4398 m).
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Har·vard   (här'vərd)   
American cleric and philanthropist who left his library and half his estate to the college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that now bears his name.
Harvard, Mount  
A peak, 4,398.1 m (14,420 ft) high, in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado.
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Harvard 
U.S. college named for John Harvard (1607-38), Puritan immigrant minister who bequeathed half his estate and 260 books to the yet-unorganized college that had been ordered by the Massachusetts colonial government. The surname is cognate with Hereward, O.E. hereweard, lit. "army guard."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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