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Yale University

Yale University

7 3.1
A famous university in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States
  • proper noun
  • /jeɪl ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːrsɪti/
translation icon : Universidad de Yale
  • Alan Kazdin, Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale University; Director of the Yale Parenting Center.
  • Yale University Press
  • professor at Yale University
  • emeritus at Yale University

She serves on the board of the AJC, the Asia Society, the New York Board of Rabbis, and Yale University's President's Council.

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Examples

  • Not only that, last I checked, she was a graduate of Yale University.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Donald Kagan is dean of Yale College and Richard M. Colgate Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.

    Academic text (1990)
  • A recent study out of Yale University says that your best friends are very likely to have DNA that is similar to yours.

  • I studied philosophy at Yale University and continued to consider the questions of Jewish ethics throughout my education.

    Blog text (29)
  • William E. Odom, a retired three-star general in the U.S. Army and former director of the National Security Agency, is a professor at Yale University and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

    Academic text (2008)
  • She serves on the board of the AJC, the Asia Society, the New York Board of Rabbis, and Yale University's President's Council.

  • A recent study out of Yale University says that your best friends are very likely to have DNA that is similar to yours.

  • The beautiful Gothic buildings of Yale University dominate much of downtown New Haven.

  • After graduating from Yale University, Goizueta returned to his native Cuba to work for his father.

Synonyms

Yale
vsYale University
302 3.8

A famous university in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States

has identical meaning but uses the full official name

Surface Forms

Morphology

Yale + university

This is a straightforward compositional proper-name + noun combination: if a learner knows the proper name 'Yale' and the noun 'university', the phrase denotes the university called Yale. The meaning is not idiomatic or metaphorical and follows a common cross-linguistic naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

Yale University is named after a merchant called Elihu Yale, who long ago gave money and books to the young college. That's why the name now means 'an old and famous university'.