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

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

Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Britain's Enoch Powell is a Cantabrigian classicist who can speak eleven languages�and enrage listeners in any of them.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Thomas Chaloner was by birth a Londiner, by studie a Cantabrigian, by education a Courtier, by religion a deuout and true Christian.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard