Oxbridgeann.adj.

Brit.

/ɒksˈbrɪdʒɪən/, U.S.

/ɑksˈbrɪdʒiən/

Forms: 1900s– Oxbridgean, 1900s– Oxbridgian.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Oxbridge n., -ean suffix.

Etymology: < Oxbridge n. + -ean suffix. With the form Oxbridgian compare -ian suffix.

A. n.

A member or graduate of Oxford or Cambridge University.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college

mountainer?a1425

Cantabrigianc1540

Oxonianc1540

Sorbonist1560

Oxford man1590

Oxfordian1645

Johnian1655

hog1690

Harvardian1702

squil1721

Cantab1751

king's man1751

Wadhamite1760

Princetonian1807

Brunonian1829

merchant tailor1829

Trinitarian1852

houseman1868

polytechnician1871

Mertonian1883

Cheltonian1887

Girtonian1887

Girtonite1894

Newnhamite1896

woman1896

normalien1904

Somervillian1904

Orangeman1908

Tab1914

Ivy Leaguer1943

Oxbridgean1959

plate-glasser1968

Yalie1969

1959 Cambr. Rev. 7 Feb. 315/1 They [sc. the Americans] are so polite, so ready to believe that the visiting Oxbridgean must find Yale or Harvard an anti-climax.

1970 Atlantic Monthly May 132 As apt as an eighteenth-century Oxbridgean with the Latin tag.

2000 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 15 June a13 Consider, for example, Martin Amis, an old Oxbridgean and son of Kingsley.

B. adj.

= Oxbridge adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > types of university

Oxbridge1850

non-collegiate1853

provincial1875

Ivy League1939

red brick1943

Oxbridgean1959

plate glass1968

1959 Guardian 14 Dec. 6/4 ‘The mere fact,’ you fretted, that such Oxbridgean institutions ‘have refused the student loan money may make their actions suspect.’

1971 New Scientist 17 June 706 The ivy-covered, Oxbridgian atmosphere of Yale.

1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) x. 265 British to the core. Upper-class, Oxbridgian, donnish, foppish, utterly to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	oxbridgean
释义	Oxbridgeann.adj. Brit. /ɒksˈbrɪdʒɪən/, U.S. /ɑksˈbrɪdʒiən/ Forms: 1900s– Oxbridgean, 1900s– Oxbridgian. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Oxbridge n., -ean suffix. Etymology: < Oxbridge n. + -ean suffix. With the form Oxbridgian compare -ian suffix. A. n. A member or graduate of Oxford or Cambridge University. ΘΚΠ society > education > member of university > [noun] > (former) specific university or college mountainer?a1425 Cantabrigianc1540 Oxonianc1540 Sorbonist1560 Oxford man1590 Oxfordian1645 Johnian1655 hog1690 Harvardian1702 squil1721 Cantab1751 king's man1751 Wadhamite1760 Princetonian1807 Brunonian1829 merchant tailor1829 Trinitarian1852 houseman1868 polytechnician1871 Mertonian1883 Cheltonian1887 Girtonian1887 Girtonite1894 Newnhamite1896 woman1896 normalien1904 Somervillian1904 Orangeman1908 Tab1914 Ivy Leaguer1943 Oxbridgean1959 plate-glasser1968 Yalie1969 1959 Cambr. Rev. 7 Feb. 315/1 They [sc. the Americans] are so polite, so ready to believe that the visiting Oxbridgean must find Yale or Harvard an anti-climax. 1970 Atlantic Monthly May 132 As apt as an eighteenth-century Oxbridgean with the Latin tag. 2000 Spectator (Hamilton, Ont.) (Nexis) 15 June a13 Consider, for example, Martin Amis, an old Oxbridgean and son of Kingsley. B. adj. = Oxbridge adj. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > types of university Oxbridge1850 non-collegiate1853 provincial1875 Ivy League1939 red brick1943 Oxbridgean1959 plate glass1968 1959 Guardian 14 Dec. 6/4 ‘The mere fact,’ you fretted, that such Oxbridgean institutions ‘have refused the student loan money may make their actions suspect.’ 1971 New Scientist 17 June 706 The ivy-covered, Oxbridgian atmosphere of Yale. 1993 A. R. Siddons Hill Towns (1994) x. 265 British to the core. Upper-class, Oxbridgian, donnish, foppish, utterly to be British and then insisting instead that you be Southern. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1959
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