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Ivy League
Ivy League


noun 
Definition:
 
group of prestigious US universities: a group of prestigious and respected universities in the northeastern United States consisting of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale
[< the presumption that the universities' buildings were ivy-clad on account of their great age]

Ivy League adjective
Ivy Leaguer noun
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