redbrick university

Definitions of redbrick university
  1. noun
    (British informal) a provincial British university of relatively recent founding; distinguished from Oxford University and Cambridge University
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    type of:
    university
    establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching
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