Doxbridge
English
Etymology
Blend of Durham + Oxbridge.
Proper noun
Doxbridge
- (rare, Britain) The universities of Oxford, the Cambridge and Durham collectively.
- 2012 February 19, Iain Hollingshead, “How middle-class are you? Take this quiz”, in The Daily Telegraph:
- Which university did you go to? ... Doxbridge – well, Durham, if you must know
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- An annual five-day sports tournament held in March in Dublin involving colleges of the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Durham and the University of York.
See also
- Camford
- Loxbridge
- Oxbridge