EZRA CORNELL

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• EZRA CORNELL (noun)
  The noun EZRA CORNELL has 1 sense:

1. United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

  Familiarity information: EZRA CORNELL used as a noun is very rare.

• EZRA CORNELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cornell; Ezra Cornell

Instance hypernyms:

businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)