Ivy League

Ivy League ExamplesWord Origin 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.

adjective

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

Origin of Ivy League First recorded in 1935–40 Related formsIvy Leaguer, noun Examples from the Web for ivy league Contemporary Examples of ivy league

White, upper-middle-class, Ivy-League educated white men, however Great they are, are falling out of power.

A Few Great Men Too Many: Aaron Sorkin Doesn’t Think You Can Handle the Truth

Arthur Chu

December 21, 2014

Sarah Palin wanted to make it a contest between high falutin’, Ivy-League cosmopolitans and red-blooded, bear-hunting Americans.

Behind the Democratic Wipeout

Peter Beinart

November 4, 2009

British Dictionary definitions for ivy league Ivy League noun

1. US
   1. the Ivy Leaguea group of eight universities (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth College, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale) that have similar academic and social prestige in the US to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain
   2. (as modifier)an Ivy-League education

ivy league in Culture Ivy League

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.