Harvard

HAR-vərd'HAR-vurd'2 syllables
🇬🇧English
Intellectual

MEANING

Guard of the army

ORIGIN

Old English

ETYMOLOGY

Derived from the Old English elements 'here' meaning army and 'weard' meaning guard.

CULTURAL NOTES

Harvard is predominantly known as the name of a prestigious university.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The name Harvard became widely recognized due to John Harvard, an English minister whose bequest to a college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was acknowledged by naming the institution after him.

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