Definition of Oxford

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Definition of Oxford
	Oxford Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England. Related Definitions: City, Of, Or, Oxford, Pertaining, The, To, University

Oxford Quotations

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler Yeats

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
Samuel Butler

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!
Philip Pullman

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
Rowan Atkinson

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
E. M. Forster

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Max Beerbohm

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
Anthony Trollope

Oxford Translations

Oxford in Spanish is Oxford

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