Elihu 1649-1721 English (American-born) colonial administrator

Plurale: yales

Mythical animal resembling tusked horse with elephant's tail.

Plurale: Yales

1. City in Iowa (USA); zip code 50277.
2. City in Michigan (USA).
3. City in Oklahoma (USA); zip code 74085.
4. Town in South Dakota (USA); zip code 57386.
5. Village in Illinois (USA); zip code 62481.

Plurale: yale locks

Trademark for a key-operated pin-tumbler cylinder lock invented by US locksmith Linus Yale Jr (1821–1868) 1865 and still widely used.

Plurale: Yale Schools

Group of literary critics, based at Yale University, Connecticut, US, who applied the deconstructionist approach of group member Jacques Derrida to literary theory. They tried to show the impossibility of a text possessing a coherent meaning by highlighting its internal contradictions and by denying the relevance of any reference to external reality or to the author's intentions.

Plurale: Yale universities

A university in Connecticut; Also called: Yale.
US university, founded 1701 in New Haven, Connecticut. It was named for Elihu Yale (1648–1721), born in Boston, Massachusetts, one-time governor of Fort St George, Madras, India.
Yale is considered one of the preeminent US universities, attracting great numbers of foreign students as well as superior US high school graduates. Presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford, among many prominent Americans, attended Yale.