Oxonian

[ ok-soh-nee-uhn ]

adjective

1. of or relating to Oxford, England, or to Oxford University (in England).

noun

1. a member or graduate of Oxford University.
2. a native or inhabitant of Oxford.

Oxonian

/ ɒkˈsəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Oxford or Oxford University

noun

1. a member of Oxford University
2. an inhabitant or native of Oxford

Word History and Origins

Origin of Oxonian¹

1530–40; < Medieval Latin Oxoni ( a ) Oxford + -an

Example Sentences

The Cantabrigians might have spent long hours carving wooden statues of their guardian spirits, whereas the Oxonians may have worshipped through dance.

From Literature

She described her mother, Ursula Niebuhr, a noted scholar who established the religion department at New York’s Barnard College, as “extremely English in a high Oxonian way.”

From Washington Post

“My mother was extremely English in a high Oxonian way, and my father was this, as he put it, yahoo from Missouri,” Sifton recalled in 2003 in an interview with the weekly San Diego Reader.

From Seattle Times

Varney entered the ready room a few minutes before 0500 and went immediately into the clipped, faintly Oxonian accent that scraped across Bull’s eardrum like a nail.

From Literature

When Hartmann obtains a secret memorandum outlining Hitler’s plans to seize all of Czechoslovakia and much of Europe, he alerts his fellow Oxonian through an intermediary.

From New York Times