ivy league
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale form the Ivy League."
- "Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id."
Etymology
From earlier Ivy colleges (1933), as Ivy League first used by AP sports editor Alan J. Gould (1935). The title became official after the formation of the athletic conference in 1954. From the tradition of Ivy Day at many older colleges and universities, where ivy is planted to honor academic excellence.
Usage
- American usage
Inflected Forms
the Ivy League (canonical)
Ivy Leagues (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Black Ivy League
British Ivy League
Chinese Ivy League
Ivy Leaguer
little Ivy
public Ivy
Southern Ivy
Ivy Day
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
Harvard clip
Princeton cut