oxbridge

IPA: ˈɑksbrɪdʒ

Root Word: Oxbridge

noun

  • (UK, education) The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge collectively.
  • A hamlet in Netherbury parish, west Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY4797).
  • A suburb of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4318).

adjective

  • (not comparable) Of or related to Oxbridge.
  • (comparable) Evoking the idea of Oxbridge.
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Examples of "oxbridge" in Sentences

  • You're definitely English, likely enough with a oxbridge background :
  • Although I'd say he's a little too public-school or oxbridge debating union.
  • Why do so many journalists who went to oxbridge try to seem cool by attacking it?
  • The owner of a politcal betting is well connected with oxbridge and wealthy elites:.
  • That Dawkins can be obnoxious in his ever so genteel oxbridge accent is also beside the point.
  • Because these tories are not of the people they are of those archaic institutions of private schools and oxbridge
  • Politcal betting is run by someone who up to his neck in with the elites and wealthy millionaires, oxbridge eltes.
  • As far as we in America are concerned, in the UK, everyone middle class and above has an oxbridge accent and everyone working class and below are cockneys straight off the old kent road.
  • Now you can see, how presumption could blind even the high-IQ, mostly oxbridge-educated Economist researchers and editors, as reflected in the difference between its two reports, and how it has learned together with its readers.
  • I was unwilling to loose another year for the sake of attending so called oxbridge, my family would not accept me repeating the year, for my father was very very ill for most part of the year and last thing I wanted him to live with is my ambition pushing me to the wrong side of certain teachers.

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