English Explanatory Dictionary

oppidan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.
noun
  1. A town dweller.
  2. A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.

Word forms

oppidan oppidans

Etymology

From Latin oppidānus (“of a town, provincial”), from oppidum (“town which is not an urbs”) + -ānus (“-an”, adjective-forming suffix), by surface analysis, oppid(um) + -an.

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