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Definition of Etonian
1. Noun. A student enrolled in (or graduated from) Eton College.
Definition of Etonian
1. Proper noun. One who is enrolled in or has graduated from Eton. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etonian
Literary usage of Etonian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1901)
"LETTER V. TO A YOUNG etonian WHO THOUGHT OF BECOMING A COTTON SPINNER. Absurd old
prejudices against commerce—Stigma attached to tht great majority of ..."
2. The Real Shelley: New Views of the Poet's Life by John Cordy Jeaffreson (1885)
"... etonian Shelley's Disesteem of Marriage.—Review of the Romance — Julia and
Matilda— Conceits of the Romance reproduced in Laon and ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1823)
"The etonian. Second Edition. 2 Vols. Svo. \l. is. Boards. Colburn. 1822. rI"HAT
placid imperturbable vanity, with which so many of -*• our contemporaneous ..."
4. Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman, Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England by Joseph Arnould (1873)
"... Chelmsford, March 7, 1847—Montem abolished—Testimony of an old etonian as to
its abuses—Third letter to Hodgson, at Brighton, on Montem— Railways near ..."
5. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"My visionary friend, who signs himself Aw etonian, has expressed himself in such
a strain of encomium, as I could not insert without incurring the ..."
6. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1860)
"Do this/' said the old etonian; " hang up a polite invitation to the Eton boys,
addressed to them exclusively, and informing them that they may have free ..."
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