Harvard alumni
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- noun
- /ˈhɑrvərd əˈlʌmnaɪ/
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exalumnos de Harvard
- Welcome to the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association.
Examples
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The Harvard alumni gathered at the reunion to discuss their experiences and achievements since graduation.
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Each year, the Harvard alumni association hosts a gala to honor its outstanding members and their contributions.
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The sun never sets on the Harvard Alumni Association.
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I have this Harvard alumni tea thing at three.
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We bring you interesting and relevant news about Harvard alumni and Harvard itself.
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Hank, actually... actually, I'm not a Harvard alumnus either.
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Several years ago, I attended a seminar for Harvard alumni who interviewed applicants to Harvard College.
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The establishment of the business school was announced at the Harvard alumni convention in Detroit in 1907.
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His son, Hassan, a Harvard alumnus, moved to New York after the revolution and reinvented himself.
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It is noteworthy that in 1950, through the artist and art patron Alfonso Ossorio, his fellow Harvard alumnus, Zbel met Jackson Pollock.
Academic text (2015)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Harvard' names the institution and 'alumnus' denotes a graduate, so a learner who knows both constituents will infer it refers to people who graduated from Harvard. This institution + graduate pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows standard noun modification, making the meaning immediately clear.
Etymology
Harvard alumni puts the school's name Harvard together with the old word alumni, which meant 'former students' or pupils who have left school. Imagine those former students coming back for a reunion — that picture shows why the phrase means 'people who have graduated from Harvard'.