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Harvard
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hårvård
English
+ <dab!>
Etymology
A variant of en Harward reflecting the merger of /v/ and /w/ in the dialects of southeastern England; thus from en enm Herward, enm Herreward, itself from en ang Hereweard and a en Harward Hereward 1. Compare de Herwarth.
Pronunciation
en /ˈhɑɹvəɹd/ rhotic
en /ˈhɑːvəd/ non-rhotic
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Harvard.wav Southern England
en [haːvɪd] [haːvəd] [(h)äːvəd] Boston
Proper noun
en given names.
en place c/USA:
en ucomm co/Latah County s/Idaho, named after the university.
en city co/McHenry County s/Illinois.
en town co/Worcester County s/Massachusetts not the location of the university, which is in Cambridge, Middlesex County. TopoZone: Harvard, Massachusetts
en minor city/and/twp co/Clay County s/Nebraska, named for the university.
A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard (clergyman) John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
en-GB Jason Wilson Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism w:The Guardian 2025-06-07 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast 0261-3077 The Harvard psychologist and bestselling author Steven Pinker appeared on the podcast of Aporia, an outlet whose owners advocate for a revival of race science and have spoken of seeking “legitimation by association” by platforming more mainstream figures. https://web.archive.org/web/20261017220631/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/07/harvard-steven-pinker-aporia-podcast 17 October 2026
A person who attends, attended, or is likely to attend Harvard; by extension, a person very successful academically.
en The Gold-Plated Porsche: How I Sank a Small Fortune Into a Used Car, and Other Misadventures Stephan Wilkinson 2005 142 I'd finished my second year at Harvard when I boarded the Penn Trader Not surprisingly. my name became Harvard. "Hey Harvard, get your ass back to the lazarette and bring me another bucket of red lead!"
en Lex and Lu J Santiago 2014 Lu had skipped second grade and found herself at the gifted school by the time she entered fifth grade. That more had earned her the nickname Harvard—another moniker from Lex. "Hey, Harvard, how was school today? Did you skip any more grades this week?" he had teased.
en The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg Eleanor Randolph 2021 37 He seethed about being the butt of anti-Harvard antics by the golden boy traders. Hey, Harvard, get me coffee."
en Michael Lopp The Software Developer's Career Handbook 2023-08-09 "O'Reilly Media, Inc." https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Software_Developer_s_Career_Handbook/eR7QEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq 978-1-0981-1664-4 252 Because any reasonably bright engineering team would eat the Ivy Leaguers alive: "Hey, Harvard, can you walk through this stack trace with me?"
en pejorative by extension a person who is nerdy, excessively privileged, pretentious
en Terri Wiltshire Carry Me Home 2010-12-17 Pan Macmillan https://www.google.com/books/edition/Carry_Me_Home/f6iusYDL03QC?hl=en&gbpv=0 978-0-230-75578-9 Don't mind her, kiddos. Miss Harvard ain't used to gettin' her hands dirty.
en David Shields Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts 2012-10-15 W. W. Norton & Company https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fakes_An_Anthology_of_Pseudo_Interviews/3cSRkfo47QMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq 978-0-393-34195-9 Matthew Vollmer I don't have anything to say about "Feast of Blood," because any idiot can understand it, unless they have an Ivy League education and start looking for allegories and metaphors and what have you. Hey Harvard, guess what: there aren't any. It's a story, not a dissertation. Symbolism is for pussies, you read it here first 333
en Gabriella Regina Love Madness 2018-09-23 Babelcube Inc. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Love_Madness/O0x1DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 978-1-5475-5064-7 "What a nerd." he said. "Is that why they call you Harvard?"
Derived terms
en Harvard architecture Harvard comma Harvard format Harvard machine Harvardian Harvardiana
Translations
name
Arabic: ar هَارْفَارْد harfard m
Belarusian: be Га́рвард m
Bengali: bn হার্ভার্ড
Bulgarian: bg Ха́рвард m
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 哈佛 haa1 fat6
Mandarin: cmn 哈佛 Hāfó
French: fr Harvard, fr Harvarde rare
Greek: el Χάρβαρντ
Hebrew: he הרווארד
Hindi: hi हार्वर्ड
Japanese: ja ハーバード Hābādo
Korean: ko ^하버드
Macedonian: mk Харвард m
Persian: fa هاروارد
Portuguese: pt Harvard
Russian: ru Га́рвард m
Serbo-Croatian: sh Харвард m, sh Harvard m
Thai: th ฮาร์วาร์ด haawâat
Ukrainian: uk Га́рвард m
Vietnamese: vi Harvard
place name
Armenian: hy Հարվարդ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 哈佛 haa1 fat6
Mandarin: cmn 哈佛 Hāfó
French: fr Harvard, fr Harvard
Portuguese: pt Harvard f
Russian: ru Га́рвард
university
Armenian: hy Հարվարդ
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 哈佛 haa1 fat6
Mandarin: cmn 哈佛 Hāfó, cmn 哈佛大學 Hāfó Dàxué,
Finnish: fi Harvard
French: fr Harvard
Georgian: ka ჰარვარდი
German: de Harvard
Hungarian: hu Harvard
Portuguese: pt Harvard f
Russian: ru Га́рвард
Ukrainian: uk Га́рвард m
References
en Universities
Portuguese
Etymology
pt :ubor en:Harvard + 1
Pronunciation
Rárvarde Hárvard
Proper noun
f
en Harvard university in Cambridge
pt Universities