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Oxbridge /ˈɒksbrɪdʒ /nounOxford and Cambridge universities regarded together: [as modifier]: Oxbridge colleges...- The Oxbridge postgraduate community is much more mixed and meritocratic than the undergraduate body.
- There was the Oxbridge model: residential, tutorial, character-forming.
- The exceptions are the Oxbridge people who exercise so much power in the universities, the civil service and political life.
Origin Mid 19th century: blend of Oxford1 and Cambridge. |