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| don1 |
a professor, esp. one that is senior and distinguished, in one of the English universities, esp. Oxford or Cambridge. [1/2 definitions] |
| Harvard University |
an Ivy League university in the U.S. founded in 1636 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, considered a world center for research and scholarship. |
| Oxbridge |
Oxford and Cambridge universities considered collectively as representing British upper-class intellectual life. [2 definitions] |
| Received Standard |
English as spoken and pronounced by those educated in British public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge universities; upper-class British English. |
| redbrick |
designating any British university or college other than Oxford or Cambridge. |
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