Oxonian

American  

[ok-soh-nee-uhn] / ɒkˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Oxford, England, or to Oxford University (in England).

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noun

1. a member or graduate of Oxford University.

2. a native or inhabitant of Oxford.

Oxonian British  

/ ɒkˈsəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Oxford or Oxford University

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noun

1. a member of Oxford University

2. an inhabitant or native of Oxford

Etymology

Origin of Oxonian

1530–40; < Medieval Latin Oxoni ( a ) Oxford + -an

Example Sentences

She described her mother, Ursula Niebuhr, a noted scholar who established the religion department at New York’s Barnard College, as “extremely English in a high Oxonian way.”

From Washington Post

“My mother was extremely English in a high Oxonian way, and my father was this, as he put it, yahoo from Missouri,” Sifton recalled in 2003 in an interview with the weekly San Diego Reader.

From Seattle Times

When Hartmann obtains a secret memorandum outlining Hitler’s plans to seize all of Czechoslovakia and much of Europe, he alerts his fellow Oxonian through an intermediary.

From New York Times

Oxonians and veterans alike came out to the University-Oxford Airport to see the senior military officers take flight.

From Washington Times

The outcome is a delightfully rum collection of anecdotes and arguments, some of them marvellously arcane in the most ludicrous navel-gazing Oxonian tradition, others touching on grander matters of state, foreign policy and high principle.

From Economist