Cornell

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proper noun

A surname.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A surname.
  2. Any of a number of towns in English-speaking countries.
  3. Cornell University

    Admittedly, Cornell does offer courses such as CHEM 1007 (Academic support), CHEM 1560 (Intro to Gen Chem) and CHEM 1729 (Solve it!) as precursors or supports to 2070, but they are still not adequate to address the inequity created by 2070’s weed-out methodology.

    2024 September 16, Opinion Department, “TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses”, in The Cornell Daily Sun
  4. A male given name.

Origin

From Cornwall, spelling conflated with the Latin family name Cornelius.

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APA

Cornell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cornell

MLA

“Cornell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cornell. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cornell,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cornell.

Source: Cornell on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.