Cantabrigian
Americanadjective
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of Cambridge, England, or Cambridge University.
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of Cambridge, Mass., or Harvard University.
noun
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a native or inhabitant of Cambridge, England or Cambridge, Mass.
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a student at or graduate of Cambridge University or Harvard University.
adjective
noun
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a member or graduate of Cambridge University or Harvard University
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an inhabitant or native of Cambridge
Etymology
Origin of Cantabrigian
1610–20; < Medieval Latin Cantabrigi ( a ) Cambridge + -an
Example Sentences
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However, no one can quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school.
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Britain's Enoch Powell is a Cantabrigian classicist who can speak eleven languages�and enrage listeners in any of them.
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Meanwhile, Cantabrigian Roger Williams was off in the direction of Rhode Island and "a third New England state had been brought to birth by a Cambridge graduate."
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Richards, a literary critic and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, wrote the first book about modern semantics, The Meaning of Meaning, with Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow Cantabrigian, in 1923.
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"Aisy, Mister Kavanagh," replied the other; "let the Cantabrigian resolve the one I propounded him first."
From The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William
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