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redbrick university

redbrick university is the alternative form of red brick university.

Meaning of red brick university

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 redbrick university

pluralredbrick universities

Questions about redbrick university

What is redbrick university the alternative form of?
Redbrick university is the alternative form of red brick university.

Words near redbrick university in the dictionary

  1. Redbournberry
  2. redbreast
  3. redbreasts
  4. redbrick
  5. redbrick universities
  6. redbrick university
  7. redbricks
  8. Redbridge
  9. Redbrook
  10. redbrown
  11. redbuck

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