1. yale - Noun
2. Yale - Proper noun
A surname transferred from the place name.
A university in the eastern United States.
A romanisation scheme originating from Yale University.
A romanisation scheme designed for Mandarin.
Coordinate terms: Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Zhuyin fuhao
A romanisation scheme designed for Cantonese.
Coordinate term: Jyutping
A romanisation scheme designed for Japanese.
Hypernym: romaji
A romanisation scheme designed for Korean.
(historical) Iâl, a commote of medieval Wales.
yale (plural yales)
A mythical beast in European mythology and heraldry, usually portrayed as an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with large horns that it can swivel in any direction.
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. Camille Paglia
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. Dorothy Parker
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. George Weinberg
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded? John Templeton
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time. Gerald Ford
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education. Barney Frank