Of, relating to, characteristic of, or reminiscent of Oxbridge (frequently with implication of superior social or intellectual status).

Not collegiate; not attached or affiliated to, or sponsored by, a university or college. Of a student: not belonging to a college; belonging to a…

Of or designating an English university other than the older universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Name given to a group of long-established eastern U.S. universities; also attributive of the social and intellectual prestige or other…

British. Usually in form redbrick. Of or characteristic of a redbrick university; that is a graduate of a redbrick university.

= Oxbridge, adj.

Frequently in form plateglass. Of, relating to, or designating the new British universities founded in the 1960s, whose buildings typically…