oxbridge

1. 1.

   general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)

   Broaderuniversity

   United Kingdom

Other forms of oxbridge

plural

oxbridges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oxbridge

What does oxbridge mean?

oxbridge means "general term for an ancient and prestigious and privileged university (especially Oxford University or Cambridge University)".

How many syllables are in oxbridge?

oxbridge has 2 syllables: ox-bridge. The stress falls on "ox". In IPA it is /ˈɑksˌbɹɪdʒ/.

Is oxbridge a common word?

oxbridge is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with oxbridge?

3 words rhyme with oxbridge. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.