Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "A resident of Cambridge ", 12 letters:
cantabrigian

Word definitions for cantabrigian in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cantabrigian \Can`ta*brig"i*an\, n. A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
__notoc__ Cantabrigian is an adjective that is used in two meanings: 1) to refer to what is of or pertaining to Cambridge University , located in Cambridge , England ; or 2) to refer to what is of or pertaining to the cities of Cambridge, England and Cambridge, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pertaining to Cambridge," 1540s, from Medieval Latin Cantabrigia (see Cambridge ) + -an .

Usage examples of cantabrigian.

It must have seemed incomprehensible to such a Cantabrigian that we should ever have been willing to leave Cambridge, and in fact I do not well understand it myself.

Cambridge, what the Harvard types call Cantabrigian, a little English cottage.

The most devoted Cantabrigian, after Lowell, whom I knew, would perhaps have contended that if he had stayed with us Willson might have lived.