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    A Wykehamist is someone who studies, or once studied, at Winchester College, one of the oldest and most famous private boarding schools in England. It is also used as an adjective, as in 'Wykehamist manners'. You will almost only meet the word in British writing about , the law, or the old upper class — a newspaper profile of a judge or a cabinet minister might slip it in to tell you quietly where that person came from, and how expensive their education was. Almost no one outside Britain knows it, and plenty of British people do not either. Each of these very old schools has its own such word, and knowing them is itself a small class signal: Eton has Etonian, Harrow has Harrovian, Winchester has Wykehamist. Note the shape of that last one — it does not come from the name of the school at all, but from the name of the man who founded it in 1382, William of Wykeham. So you cannot work it out from 'Winchester', which is why it looks so strange the first time you see it. It always takes a capital W.

    溫徹斯特公學(Winchester College)的學生或校友(英國名校校友的專稱,帶階級意味)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Wykeham + -ist. Named after William of Wykeham, the bishop who founded Winchester College; -ist marks a person belonging to something.

原始詞典資料2 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。

Wykehamistadj

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    Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Winchester College.

    • A prized possession of mine is a recording of Empson reading his poems in a tone of voice that I believe no other human being can match, even if that person also combined Wykehamist, Cantabrigian, and Chinese accents.

Wykehamistnoun

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    An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of Winchester College.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。