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  • noun Plural form of Etonian.

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Examples

  • June 4, among other things of importance to Etonians, is also the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when the tanks moved in to crush the peaceful students’ demonstration.

    We were misunderstood Helen 2006

  • They are set to become the preserve of the leisured classes, the old Etonians, the daughters of old Etonians and the odd model with a couple of million in the bank.

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • They are set to become the preserve of the leisured classes, the old Etonians, the daughters of old Etonians and the odd model with a couple of million in the bank.

    If you want to bag a royal, study Botticelli | Carole Cadwalladr 2011

  • Unless, of course, they plan to emulate Philip Green, a school-leaver at 16 who, knowing only the rudiments of Dryden, was recently invited to advise the government's Etonians.

    Only a sadist would inflict Dryden on our schoolchildren Catherine Bennett 2010

  • Maybe something like banishing the Etonians from Oxbridge and opening up life's glittering prizes to others who deserve them?

    Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by DR Thorpe – review David Kynaston 2010

  • David FergussonLondon• "The new boys network: Etonians flood into Who's Who"; "Coalition government is dominated by former public school pupils"; "Coalition's blind spot on equality is letting women down" 21 May.

    Letters: On your bike, Flann 2011

  • Known to his fellow Etonians simply as Will Wales, the prince still had to contend with having a security officer—one of nineteen assigned to guard him at Eton—living in a room adjacent to his at Manor House, a four-story residence hall that housed fifty boys.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • You only have to look around our society and everything he wrote about in the 1840s is still relevant – the great gulf between the rich and poor, corrupt financiers, corrupt members of parliament, how the country is run by old Etonians, you name it, he said it.

    Ebenezer Scrooge named most popular Dickens character 2012

  • Known to his fellow Etonians simply as Will Wales, the prince still had to contend with having a security officer—one of nineteen assigned to guard him at Eton—living in a room adjacent to his at Manor House, a four-story residence hall that housed fifty boys.

    William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011

  • The constriction of state spending by Old Etonians seems to have provoked a socialist fury – he tried to lead a studio audience in a rendition of the music hall song containing the lyrics, "It's the poor wot gets the blame" – for which he realised he had a national public platform.

    Paul O'Grady's socialist fury rant was a rare live-TV shock Mark Lawson 2010

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