Meaning of oppidan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town dweller.
   obsolete, rare
2. A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.

Examples

“But money is all-potent, and wealthy oppidans soon found means to elbow the aristocracy in their choicest assemblies.”

“... might conceivably imply that he did not live, as the custom had been for such boys, in the Abbot's own house, but lodged in the town of Winchester and perhaps attended the College as an oppidan, or townsman.”

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