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

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Example Sentences

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Cantabrigian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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

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

"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 William Carleton

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