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A short label meaning "of Cambridge University." It is written after a degree, not spoken: MA (Cantab), BA (Cantab). It tells the reader which Cambridge — the English university, not the many other places named Cambridge, and not Oxford, which uses (Oxon) in the same way. You see it on business cards, name plates, , academic papers, and the little biography line under an article — places where someone wants the degree to carry the name of where it came from. It is quite formal and a bit old-fashioned, and using it about yourself can sound like showing off, so people who have the degree often leave it off in ordinary life. Almost always inside brackets. It is not a word you need to produce; you need to recognise it when you meet it. It can also be used as an adjective in the same narrow way (a Cantab man), but that is rare and dated now.
劍橋大學的（學位後綴）
組成A clipped form of Cantabrigian, from the Latin name for Cambridge, Cantabrigia. Latin was the language of the old universities, so their Latin names survive in these degree tags — which is also why Oxford gets (Oxon), from Oxonia.
同家族的字
- Cantabrigianthe full word that Cantab is cut down from — a person from Cambridge, or of Cambridge University
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cantabnoun/ˈkantab/
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A graduate of the University of Cambridge.
- She is frequently visited by the young Cantabs, upon their arrival in the capital […].
- Sure my invention must be down at zero, / And I grown one of many "Wooden Spoons" / Of verse, (the name with which we Cantabs please / To dub the last of honours in degrees).
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A student at or graduate of Harvard University, USA (Cambridge, MA).
Cantabadj/ˈkantab/
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Cantabrigian.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。