Word: Oppidan
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...oppidan [op-i-duhn ]
adjective
1. of or pertaining to a town.
noun
1. an inhabitant of a town.
2. a student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.
Origin
First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin oppidānus, equivalent to oppid(um) “town” + -ānus -an
Examples
1. Witness his excruciating promise to reach out to something he pointedly referred to as “Oppidan Britain”.
"Ruining a country near you soon: the beta males who think they’re alphas," The Guardian, Marina Hyde
2. But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, James Russell Lowell, 1855
...oppidan [op-i-duhn ]
adjective
1. of or pertaining to a town.
noun
1. an inhabitant of a town.
2. a student of Eton College, England, who is not a King's scholar, and who boards in a private family.
Origin
First recorded in 1530–40; from Latin oppidānus, equivalent to oppid(um) “town” + -ānus -an
Examples
1. Witness his excruciating promise to reach out to something he pointedly referred to as “Oppidan Britain”.
"Ruining a country near you soon: the beta males who think they’re alphas," The Guardian, Marina Hyde
2. But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, James Russell Lowell, 1855