oppidan noun & adjective. ['ɒpɪd(ǝ)n] M16.[Latin oppidanus belonging to a town (other than Rome), from oppidum (fortified) town: see -AN.]A. noun.
1. An inhabitant of a town.
M16.2. At Eton College: a student who is not on the foundation and who boards with a housemaster (orig. with a private family in the town). Opp.
colleger.
M16.b. adjective. Of or pertaining to a town; civic; urban. Formerly also (
spec.), pertaining to a university town as opp. to the university itself.
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