Oxonian

American  

[ok-soh-nee-uhn] / ɒkˈsoʊ ni ən /

adjective

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

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noun

1. a member or graduate of Oxford University.

2. a native or inhabitant of Oxford.

Oxonian British  

/ ɒkˈsəʊnɪən /

adjective

1. of or relating to Oxford or Oxford University

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noun

1. a member of Oxford University

2. an inhabitant or native of Oxford

Etymology

Origin of Oxonian

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

Example Sentences

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 • Dec. 21, 2019

“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 • Dec. 13, 2019

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 • Feb. 2, 2018

The American Oxonian, the magazine of American Rhodes scholars studying at Oxford, lamented that the university had no single yell “except, of course, the distressing cry of ‘Debag him!’

From Slate • Jul. 10, 2012

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 "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy