Meaning of Harvard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. Any of a number of places named for persons with the surname, including a city in Massachusetts.
3. A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
4. A person who attends, attended, or is likely to attend Harvard; by extension, a person very successful academically.
5. a person who is nerdy, excessively privileged, pretentious
   broadly, derogatory

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Examples

“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.”

“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!"”

“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.”

“He seethed about being the butt of anti-Harvard antics by the golden boy traders. Hey, Harvard, get me coffee."”

“Because any reasonably bright engineering team would eat the Ivy Leaguers alive: "Hey, Harvard, can you walk through this stack trace with me?"”

“Don't mind her, kiddos. Miss Harvard ain't used to gettin' her hands dirty.”

“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”

“"What a nerd." he said. "Is that why they call you Harvard?"”

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