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oppidans

oppidans is the plural of oppidan.

Meaning of oppidan

Noun

oppidan (plural oppidans)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A town dweller.
    • But money is all-potent, and wealthy oppidans soon found means to elbow the aristocracy in their choicest assemblies.1856, John Wade, England's Greatness, page 496
  2. (also Oppidan) A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.
    • ... might conceivably imply that he did not live, as the custom had been for such boys, in the Abbot's own house, but lodged in the town of Winchester and perhaps attended the College as an oppidan, or townsman.1983, Bridget Boland, Muriel St. Clare Byrne, The Lisle Letters, →ISBN, page 96

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Questions about oppidans

What is oppidans the plural of?
Oppidans is the plural of oppidan.

Words near oppidans in the dictionary

  1. opperca
  2. oppertunity
  3. Oppianic
  4. oppida
  5. oppidan
  6. oppidans
  7. oppidum
  8. oppie
  9. oppies
  10. oppignerate
  11. oppignerated

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