Yalie
Yalie noun: a student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
Noun
Yalie (plural Yalies)
- A student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
- The neons and spandex of the “Safety Dance” lend Yalies a fleeting escape from their normal selves, the self who un-tags Facebook photos that may hurt their future electability.2009 October 23, Claire Gordon, “The decade that never dies”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2010
- Hart, on the other hand, was a cool young Yalie whose 1974 Senate campaign stump speech was actually called “The End of the New Deal.”2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic
- Synonyms:
- Eli
Synonyms of Yalie
Forms of Yalie
| plural | Yalies |
|---|
Origin of Yalie
From Yale + -ie.
Questions about Yalie
- What does Yalie mean?
- Yalie means a student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
- What part of speech is Yalie?
- Yalie is a noun.
- What is the plural of Yalie?
- The plural of Yalie is Yalies.
Words near Yalie in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Yalie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this entry: “Yalie.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yalie. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.