Cantabrigianadj.n.
/kantəˈbrɪdʒɪən/ 1. Of or belonging to Cambridge; a member of the University of Cambridge.
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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
society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > specific university
Cantabrigianc1540
Sorbonical1543
Oxon.1705
Oxfordish1842
Brunonian1857
Princetonian1858
Cantab1870
Oxford1886
Cantabrigian1887
Sorbonnic1893
Oxfordy1924
c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 676 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 96 Then he asked me and I were cantibrygion. I sayd no, I was an oxonian.
1616 J. Chamberlain Let. 27 Mar. (1939) I. 618 The King..had a play at Roiston acted by some of the younger sort of our Cantabrigians.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. vii. 15 The Oxonians and Cantabrigians..are the happiest Academians on Earth.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 78. ⁋5 Some hardy Cantabrigian Author.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xv. 268 Every slip of an Oxonian or Cantabrigian who writes his first leader, assumes that we subdued the earth before we sat down to write this particular ‘Times’.
2. Belonging to Cambridge, Massachusetts, or to Harvard University.
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society > education > place of education > college or university > [adjective] > university > specific university
Cantabrigianc1540
Sorbonical1543
Oxon.1705
Oxfordish1842
Brunonian1857
Princetonian1858
Cantab1870
Oxford1886
Cantabrigian1887
Sorbonnic1893
Oxfordy1924
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of U.S.A. > [adjective] > towns or cities
Bostonian1698
Chicagoese1855
New Orleanian1855
Chicagoan1861
Cantabrigian1887
Angeleno1909
Los Angeleno1960
1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 589/1 Mrs. Sainsbury was Boston-born, as well as Mrs. Pasmer, and was Cantabrigian by marriage.
1893 W. K. Post Harvard Stories 26 The New Haven men struggled to the Cantabrigian twenty-yard line.
Derivatives
Cantabriˈgicity n. Apparently an isolated use.
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1863 De Morgan in Notes & Queries 3rd Ser. IV. 170 There is a general Cantabrigicity about it.
ˈCantabrize v. There is no evidence of continuity of use between the examples given here.
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1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 213 Know also that this University [sc. Dublin] did so Cantabrize, that she imitated her in the successive choice of her Chancellours.
1885 Academy 10 Jan. 19/2 Readers..might be excused for considering that Mr. Mullinger ‘cantabrizes’.
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