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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Cambridge, England, or Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • adjective Of or relating to Cambridge University.
  • noun A native or resident of Cambridge, England, or Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • noun A student or graduate of Cambridge University.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to Cambridge, England, or to its university. Also incorrectly spelled Cantabridgian.
  • noun An inhabitant or a native of Cambridge.
  • noun A student or graduate of Cambridge University. Abbreviated Cantab.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A native or resident of Cambridge; esp. a student or graduate of the university of Cambridge, England.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Cambridge or its university
  • noun A native or resident of Cambridge
  • noun An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of Cambridge University

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a resident of Cambridge

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Medieval Latin Cantabrigia, Cambridge, England.]

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