Definition & Meaning | English word OPPIDAN
OPPIDAN
Definitions of OPPIDAN
- (rare) Of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.
- (rare, obsolete) A town dweller.
- (also Oppidan) A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using OPPIDAN in a Sentence
- He was educated at Wetherby School, Sunningdale, and Eton College, where he was an Oppidan Scholar, then at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained a 2:1 degree in Classics.
- His writings include The End of a Chapter (1916), while hospitalised during the Great War, The Oppidan (1922), a roman à clef about his life and contemporaries at Eton, an edition of the Letters of Herbert Cardinal Vaughan to Lady Herbert of Lea (1942), and a biography Mrs Fitzherbert: a life chiefly from unpublished sources (1939), together with an edition of her letters (with Maria Anne Fitzherbert), The letters of Mrs Fitzherbert and connected papers; being the second volume of the life of Mrs.
- Activate celebrated its 65th birthday in 2012, while The Oppidan Press was only first published in 2007, and its target readership was mainly Oppidans.
- Oppidans who have distinguished themselves academically, but who may have elected not to become Collegers, are called Oppidan Scholars, and similarly have OS attached to their surnames in the school lists, but receive no financial benefit and are distinguished in no other way from other Oppidans.
- He attended Eton College and played in first-choice elevens in both codes of Etonian football - for the Field XI and the Oppidan side in the Wall Game in 1863.
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