Harvard

Meaning

Proper Noun

Any of a number of places named for persons with the surname, including a city in Massachusetts.
A university in Cambridge, MA named after John Harvard, American clergyman and philanthropist.

Origin

Surname from a dialectal Middle English variant of Hereward. Cognate with German Herwarth.

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