Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ezra_cornell

1 sense of ezra cornell

Sense 1
Cornell, Ezra Cornell -- (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))
       INSTANCE OF=> businessman, man of affairs -- (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
       INSTANCE OF=> philanthropist, altruist -- (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)