oxbridge

noun

1. Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
2. upper-class intellectual life in England, as felt to be under the influence of Oxford and Cambridge universities: a bitter attack on Oxbridge by the younger writers.

adjective

3. of, relating to, or characteristic of Oxford and Cambridge, or of upper-class, intellectual traditions or manners associated with these universities: a career formerly open only to Oxbridge graduates; to voice the proper Oxbridge sentiments.

noun

1. 1. the British universities of Oxford and Cambridge, esp considered as ancient and prestigious academic institutions, bastions of privilege and superiority, etc
   2. (as modifier)Oxbridge graduates

1849, a conflation of Oxford and Cambridge, used in reference to the characteristics common to the two universities.