Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of Oxford or Oxford University.
- noun A native or inhabitant of Oxford.
- noun A person who studies or has studied at Oxford University.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Oxford.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Oxford: a member or a graduate of the University of Oxford.
- noun An Oxonian button-over.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or relating to the city or the university of Oxford, England.
- proper noun A student or graduate of Oxford University, in England.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Oxford .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of Oxford University
- adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of the city of Oxford, England, or its inhabitants
- noun a native or resident of Oxford
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Our Oxonian was a young man about the middle height, and naturally of a thoughtful expression and rather reserved mien.
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"In English, an 'Oxonian' means somebody who went to Oxford University," huffed Guy Spier, president of the Oxford Alumni Association of New York.
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"In English, an 'Oxonian' means somebody who went to Oxford University," huffed Guy Spier, president of the Oxford Alumni Association of New York.
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'Mr. Thornton, we were accusing Mr. Bell this morning of a kind of Oxonian mediaeval bigotry against his native town; and we -- Margaret, I believe -- suggested that it would do him good to associate a little with Milton manufacturers.'
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
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“The funny mistress of five or six accents,” Jane regaled them all with the story of her dinner party, successively taking the part of a lecherous old Oxonian who was trying to pinch her bottom, a drunk Ceylonese official, and a dry old colonial widow with a lorgnette.
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If the saturnine Hicks was Murdoch's "dark angel" at university, her other major correspondent in these years, Frank Thompson, was very much her Oxonian fair-haired boy, whose death while fighting behind enemy lines in the Balkans in 1944 cast him retrospectively not only as her Knight Errant but as the love of her life.
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In late-1970s London, when the young Oxonian was writing for a lefty publication, the New Statesman, he became a fixture in Bloomsbury at the "Friday Lunch," a boozy gathering of scribes.
An easy label for Christopher Hitchens? Careful, it could be a fighting word
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In that rich Oxonian voice, he asked, "With whom should one negotiate, if not one's enemies?"
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It seemed to me to be a very Oxonian sort of greeting, and I wondered then if John Hood knew exactly what he had got himself into.
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