Cantabrigian

American  

[kan-tuh-brij-ee-uhn] / ˌkæn təˈbrɪdʒ i ən /

adjective

1. of Cambridge, England, or Cambridge University.

2. of Cambridge, Mass., or Harvard University.

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noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Cambridge, England or Cambridge, Mass.

2. a student at or graduate of Cambridge University or Harvard University.

Cantabrigian British  

/ ˌkæntəˈbrɪdʒɪən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Cambridge or Cambridge University, or of Cambridge, Massachusetts, or Harvard University

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noun

1. a member or graduate of Cambridge University or Harvard University

2. an inhabitant or native of Cambridge

Etymology

Origin of Cantabrigian

1610–20; < Medieval Latin Cantabrigi ( a ) Cambridge + -an

Example Sentences

As any middle-aged Cantabrigian might remember it from his student days, Britain's great Cambridge University was a mellow place with a flavor of its own.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

However, no one can quite match Cantabrigian Snow at making an old school seem both old and a school.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week, Harvard looked back on the first 64 Junior Fellows, and with a properly muffled Cantabrigian pride pronounced the experiment satisfactory so far.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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