oppidan
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Of or pertaining to a town.
- noun An inhabitant of a town.
- noun A student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.
Examples
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But now oppidan life extended beyond these walls; and houses, streets, villas and gardens spread into the plain on all sides.
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Touching the temporal government of Rome, and oppidan affairs, there is a pretor and some choice citizens, which sit in the Capitol.
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It may therefore be concluded that he was an oppidan.
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On another occasion, 'to the great joy' of the narrator, an oppidan vanquished a colleger, though the colleger fought so furiously that he put his fingers out of joint, and went back to the classic studies that soften manners, with a face broken and quite black.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
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But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers.
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Horatio is among the alumni of Eton the king of good fellows: there is not a boy in the school, colleger, or oppidan, but what would fight a long hour to defend him from insult; no -- nor a sparkling eye among the enchanting daughters of old _Etona_ that does not twinkle with pleasure at the elegant congée, and amiable attentions, which he always pays at the shrine of female accomplishment.
Note
The word 'oppidan' comes from a Latin word meaning 'town'.
