Library / English Dictionary

YALE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A university in Connecticut

Synonyms:

Yale; Yale University

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Instance hypernyms:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Holonyms ("Yale" is a part of...):

New Haven (a city in southwestern Connecticut; site of Yale University)

Holonyms ("Yale" is a member of...):

Ivy League (a league of universities and colleges in the northeastern United States that have a reputation for scholastic achievement and social prestige)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)

Synonyms:

Elihu Yale; Yale

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Investigators at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, and their collaborators discovered a subtype of T cell (link is external)s—called T follicular helper cell 13, or Tfh13 cells — in laboratory mice bred to have a rare genetic immune disease called DOCK8 immunodeficiency syndrome.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)

We'd turn the laser on and they'd jump on an object, hold it with their paws and intensively bite it as if they were trying to capture and kill it, says lead investigator and Yale Associated Professor of Psychiatry Ivan de Araujo.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I took dinner usually at the Yale Club—for some reason it was the gloomiest event of my day—and then I went upstairs to the library and studied investments and securities for a conscientious hour.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the well-rounded man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)