Wellingtonianadj.n.
/ˌwɛlɪŋˈtəʊnɪən/, U.S. /ˌwɛlɪŋˈtoʊniən/ A. adj.
1. Of, belonging to, associated with, or characteristic or reminiscent of the first Duke of Wellington.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > [adjective] > characteristic of specific famous person
Wellingtonian1813
Lincolnian1910
Lincolnesque1923
1813 Monthly Rev. Nov. 323 The present volunteer bard of the Wellingtonian victories has not genius equal to the splendors of his subject.
1830 Monthly Mag. Aug. 149 Such a case..can hardly be admitted to reflect much lustre on the wisdom or protestantism of the Wellingtonian converts.
1854 Poultry Chron. 1 439/2 She performs this duty..in a true Wellingtonian spirit, coming off her nest with quiet dignity.
1889 Academy 14 Sept. 159/1 The Wellingtonian legend was once as strong in England as the Napoleonic in France.
1928 Daily Express 31 Jan. 8/2 His famous ‘back to the wall’ message in the spring of 1918, when the Germans had hurled back the Allied front, revealed him as a fighter of Wellingtonian tenacity.
1951 R. Postgate Life G. Lansbury xxi. 290 The head has the Roman grandeur which had replaced the simple geniality of 1912—a big, Wellingtonian nose, sparse white hair blown in the wind, firm jaw.
1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 391 His [sc. Macaulay's] Pittite and Wellingtonian dissent from Holland's Foxite and Gallomane view of France was never masked.
2009 D. Ricks in R. Beaton & D. Ricks Making of Mod. Greece xix. 256 Palamas explicitly foregrounds athletics as the incarnation of nationalism and the rehearsal of combat, almost in a Wellingtonian spirit.
2. Of or relating to Wellington College, Berkshire, a public school founded in 1859 and named after the first Duke of Wellington; esp. designating a pupil or former pupil of the school.
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society > education > place of education > school > [adjective] > specific schools
Wykehamica1711
Westminster1728
Etonian1749
Wykehamical1758
Pauline1831
Wykehamist1865
Wellingtonian1867
1867 London Rev. 9 Nov. 521/2 (signature of letter) The Father of a Wellingtonian Non-Foundationer.
1959 Times 18 June 15/4 The line of Wellingtonian musicians, either staff or pupils.
2011 Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. 66 I recall Johnny offering to accompany my father and myself..to an entry interview at Wellington College because, as he put it, he was one of four distinguished Wellingtonian brothers and it might be helpful.
B. n.
1. A follower or supporter of the first Duke of Wellington, as a military leader or (later) as a Tory statesman and Prime Minister (1828–30 and 1834). Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories > person(s)
Wellingtonian1815
invasionist1853
compulsionist1886
occupationist1892
Zeppelinite1909
navalist1911
westerner1916
retreatista1925
nuclearist1952
Lawrentian1957
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for grand-duke > of first duke of Wellington > follower or supporter of
Wellingtonian1815
1815 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 29 365 Those brave and tried soldiers, distinguished on account of the honour they had gained under their great commander, by the appellation of ‘Wellingtonians’.
c1843 D. O'Connell in J. O'Connor Hist. Ireland 1798–1924 (1925) I. viii. 240 I promise them that there is not a Wellingtonian of them all who would less shrink from that contest than I.
1860 Morning Chron. 14 Aug. 4/4 The views..of leading Conservative statesmen—the Wellingtonians of the day.
1993 J. J. Sack From Jacobite to Conservative (1999) vi. 155 The only major daily London newspaper remaining to the Wellingtonians after the Courier defected in 1830 to the Whigs, the Morning Post, steadily maintained that [etc.].
2. A pupil of Wellington College (see sense A. 2). Also (esp. in Old Wellingtonian): a former pupil of this college; cf. O.W. n. at O n.1 Initialisms 2b.
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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > former pupil > specific school
Old Etonian1769
Wellingtonian1863
O.W.1868
O.E.1901
1863 Bell's Life in London 14 Nov. 3/3 A match was played at Wellington College..between some Oxonians and the present Wellingtonians.
1896 Wellington Year Bk. 1895 34/2 Colonel Talbot..asked Wellingtonians of today to follow the examples of their predecessors.
1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction xii. 114 That's the kind of sentence up with which a sensitive Old Wellingtonian should not on any occasion be asked to put.
1980 D. Newsome On Edge of Paradise v. 154 The other male member of the party was a young seventeen-year-old Wellingtonian..who had apparently just been expelled for indolence and insubordination.
2008 Somerset County Gaz. (Nexis) 28 Dec. (headline) Old Wellingtonian appointed Black Rod.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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