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red brick university

red brick university noun: any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.

red brick university: any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the...
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Noun

red brick university (plural red brick universities)

  1. (UK) Any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
    • It took a while before he told me his background: a happy childhood; two degrees—a bachelor's from a red brick university and an Oxbridge PhD; a relatively high-flying job in academia that he liked rather than loved.2006 March 31, Adrian Turpin, “Not tonight darling, I'm online”, in Financial Times, retrieved 31 Mar 2006

Forms of red brick university

pluralred brick universities
alternative formredbrick university

Origin of red brick university

From the memoir Redbrick University by Edgar Allison Peers, whose titular university is based on the University of Liverpool. Liverpool, like most urban universities of the late-19th and early-20th centuries, extensively uses red clay bricks in its architecture.

Questions about red brick university

What does red brick university mean?
Red brick university means any traditional British university other than Oxford or Cambridge, especially one founded in the Victorian age in a large city.
What part of speech is red brick university?
Red brick university is a noun.
What is the plural of red brick university?
The plural of red brick university is red brick universities.

Words near red brick university in the dictionary

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  3. red boxes
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  5. red brick universities
  6. red brick university
  7. Red Brigades
  8. red brush
  9. red bug
  10. red building paper
  11. Red Bull

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