Harvard

Meanings

1. A surname transferred from the given name.
2. A place in the United States:
3. An unincorporated community in Latah County, Idaho, named after the university.
4. A city in McHenry County, Illinois.
5. A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts (not the location of the university, which is in Cambridge, Middlesex County).
6. A minor city and township in Clay County, Nebraska, named for the university.
7. A university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.
8. A person who attends, attended, or is likely to attend Harvard; by extension, a person very successful academically.
9. a person who is nerdy, excessively privileged, pretentious

Etymology

A variant of Harward reflecting the merger of /v/ and /w/ in the dialects of southeastern England; thus from Middle English Herward, Herreward, itself from Old English Hereweard and a doublet of Harward and Hereward. Compare German Herwarth.