Yale

American  

[yeyl] / yeɪl /

noun

1. Elihu, 1648–1721, English colonial official, born in America: governor of Madras 1687–92; principal benefactor of the Collegiate School at Saybrook, Connecticut (now Yale University).

2. Mount, a mountain in central Colorado, one of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range, in the S Rocky Mountains. 14,196 feet (4,327 meters).

3. a male given name.

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Example Sentences

Harvard-Westlake 8, Loyola 0: Junior Justin Kirchner, a Yale commit, struck out 13 and threw a no-hitter in the Mission League win.

From Los Angeles Times

Owen recently graduated from Yale University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in statistics and data science and was a Yale Journalism Scholar.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cook, speaking at the Yale School of Management on Thursday, expressed a similar concern about the near-term outlook, noting that uncertainty has increased and that the balance of risks has shifted increasingly toward inflation.

From Barron's

Mr. Kennedy is the Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University and the author of “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers.”

From The Wall Street Journal

From the Chinatown Metro station, the bridge is three blocks up College Street and one block down Yale Street.

From Los Angeles Times