Cantab.

American  

abbreviation

1. Cantabrigian.

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Cantab. British  

/ kænˈtæb /

abbreviation

1. Cantabrigiensis

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Etymology

Origin of Cantab.

Latin: of Cambridge

Example Sentences

A varmint man spurns a scholarship, would consider it a degradation to be a fellow.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

The Proctor makes a claim of 6s. 8d. on every undergraduate whom he finds inermem, or without his academicals.—Gradus ad Cantab., p.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

Cantab. on coal brandy, 352. —— on Hallam's Middle Ages, 51. —— origin of swot, 352.

From Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 1, November, 1849-May, 1850 A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Jebb was the ideal Cantab.; didactic, professorial, the Public Orator; seeming incomplete without a gown: but for his rare and apt appearances, he might have overdone the part.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Thus dismissed the august presence, he recounts this jobation to his friends, and enters into a discourse on masters, deans, tutors, and proctors.—Grad. ad Cantab., p.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer