REDBRICK UNIVERSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does redbrick university mean? 

• REDBRICK UNIVERSITY (noun)
  The noun REDBRICK UNIVERSITY has 1 sense:

1. (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

  Familiarity information: REDBRICK UNIVERSITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REDBRICK UNIVERSITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("redbrick university" is a kind of...):

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)