redbrick university

1. 1.

   (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

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   colloquialism · United Kingdom

Questions about redbrick university

What does redbrick university mean?

redbrick university means "(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University".

Is redbrick university a common word?

redbrick university 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.