oxford

[Ox·ford]

A city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University

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Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

Noun
a low shoe laced over the instep

Noun
a university in England

Noun
a city in southern England northwest of London; site of Oxford University

Noun
a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner


a.
Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.


Oxford

Ox"ford , a. Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Oxford movement. See Tractarianism. -- Oxford School, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford "Tracts for the Times," issued the period 1833 -- 1841. Shipley. -- Oxford tie, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle.

Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England.

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Usage Examples

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.

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Other Usage Examples

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

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