oppidan

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.

   “... calculating the portions of the population, which are purely oppidan, suburban and rural, separately, ...”

2. isim A town dweller.

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

3. isim A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.

   “... 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.”