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adj
Of or pertaining to a town or conurbation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rare
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noun
A town dweller.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
A class of student in traditional English public schools such as Eton; opposed to colleger or King's Scholar.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: also Oppidan
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History
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.
