| 单词 | old wellingtonian |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOld Wellingtonian 2. A pupil of Wellington College (see sense A. 2). Also (esp. in Old Wellingtonian): a former pupil of this college; cf. O.W. n. at O n.1 Initialisms 2b. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > former pupil > specific school Old Etonian1769 Wellingtonian1863 O.W.1868 O.E.1901 1863 Bell's Life in London 14 Nov. 3/3 A match was played at Wellington College..between some Oxonians and the present Wellingtonians. 1896 Wellington Year Bk. 1895 34/2 Colonel Talbot..asked Wellingtonians of today to follow the examples of their predecessors. 1954 J. Masters Bhowani Junction xii. 114 That's the kind of sentence up with which a sensitive Old Wellingtonian should not on any occasion be asked to put. 1980 D. Newsome On Edge of Paradise v. 154 The other male member of the party was a young seventeen-year-old Wellingtonian..who had apparently just been expelled for indolence and insubordination. 2008 Somerset County Gaz. (Nexis) 28 Dec. (headline) Old Wellingtonian appointed Black Rod. < as lemmas |
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