What does Cornell mean?

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kɔrˈnɛlcor·nell

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Cornell, Katherine Cornellnoun

    United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974)

  2. Cornell, Ezra Cornellnoun

    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)

Wikipedia

  1. cornell

    Cornell University is a private Ivy League statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. The university was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White with the intention of teaching and making contributions in all fields of knowledge from the classics to the sciences and from the theoretical to the applied. Cornell has routinely ranked among the top universities in the world.The university is organized into seven undergraduate colleges and seven graduate divisions at its main Ithaca campus with each college and division defining its specific admission standards and academic programs in near autonomy. The university also administers three satellite campuses, including two in New York City and one in the Education City region of Qatar.Cornell is one of the few private land grant universities in the United States. Of its seven undergraduate colleges, three are state-supported statutory or contract colleges through the State University of New York (SUNY) system, including its agricultural and human ecology colleges and its industrial labor relations school. Among Cornell's graduate schools, only the veterinary college is state-supported. As a land grant college, Cornell operates a cooperative extension outreach program in every county of New York state and receives annual funding from the State of New York for various educational missions. The main campus of Cornell University in Ithaca spans 745 acres (more than 4,300 acres when the Cornell Botanic Gardens and the numerous university-owned lands in New York City are included).As of September 2021, 61 Nobel laureates, four Turing Award winners and one Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Cornell. Cornell counts more than 250,000 living alumni, and its former and present faculty and alumni include 34 Marshall Scholars, 33 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Truman Scholars, 7 Gates Scholars, 63 Olympic Medalists, 10 current Fortune 500 CEOs, and 35 billionaire alumni. Since its founding, Cornell has been a co-educational, non-sectarian institution where admission has not been restricted by religion or race. The diverse student body consists of more than 15,000 undergraduate and 10,000 graduate students from all 50 American states and 119 countries.

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  1. cornell

    Cornell generally refers to Cornell University, an Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York. It was founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White and is renowned for its programs in areas like Engineering, Hotel Administration, and Industrial and Labor Relations. However, it may also refer to the 'Cornell Method', a system for taking, organizing and reviewing notes, developed by Walter Pauk of Cornell University. The context in which the term is used would determine the exact meaning.

Wikidata

  1. Cornell

    Cornell is a city in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 1,467 at the 2010 census. It is located on the Chippewa River, upstream from Lake Wissota and Chippewa Falls.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. CORNELL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cornell is ranked #1672 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Cornell surname appeared 21,558 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 7 would have the surname Cornell.

    88.5% or 19,094 total occurrences were White.
    5.1% or 1,104 total occurrences were Black.
    2.8% or 608 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 403 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 207 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.6% or 144 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Cornell in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Cornell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Cornell in a Sentence

  1. Robert Harrison:

    From the moment I met her during the presidential search, it was clear to me that she had the intellect, energy and vision not only to lead Cornell, but to be one of the greatest presidents in our 150-year history.

  2. Joseph Scaffido:

    Cornell University is not going to look at different groups and say, ‘ You’re not allowed to support that group because we don’t believe them ’ or something like Cornell University. I think Cornell University’s just the opposite. I think Cornell University wants the entire community to understand what’s going on in all parts of the world.

  3. Daniel Handler:

    I'm only writing a book about a black girl who is allergic to watermelon if I get a blurb from you, Cornell West, Toni Morrison, and Barack Obama saying this guy's OK.

  4. Vicky Cornell:

    I know that Chris Cornell loved our children and Chris Cornell would not hurt them by intentionally taking Chris Cornell own life.

  5. Charles Whitehead:

    The optics are bad, but not everything that looks bad is criminal, cornell Law School's unclear whether trading based on the White House's private release of factual information, that was otherwise publicly obtainable, would constitute insider trading, even if White House was publicly contesting that information.

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