elihu yale

1. 1.

   English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)

   SynonymsYale

   Broaderphilanthropist

Questions about elihu yale

What does elihu yale mean?

elihu yale means "English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721)".

What is another word for elihu yale?

Close synonyms include Yale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is elihu yale a common word?

elihu yale is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.