Ivy League

English

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.

Proper noun

the Ivy League

1. (US, education, politics) An association of eight universities in the USA, known for high quality. [from 1935]

   Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale form the Ivy League.

   • 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2]:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• C9 League (PRC)
• Group of Thirteen (Canada)
• Russell Group (UK)

 

Derived terms

• Black Ivy League
• British Ivy League
• Chinese Ivy League
• Ivy
• Ivy Leaguer
• little Ivy
• public Ivy
• Southern Ivy

 

Related terms

• ivy
• Ivy Day
• planting the ivy

 

Translations

association

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長春藤聯盟／长春藤联盟 (Chángchūnténg Liánméng), 常青藤聯盟／常青藤联盟 (Chángqīngténg Liánméng)

• Dutch: Ivy League f
• Finnish: Ivy League, murattiliiga