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Webster 1913 Edition

Cantab

Can′tab

,

Noun.

[Abbreviated from

Cantabrigian

.]

A Cantabrigian.

[Colloq.]

Sir W. Scott.

Definition 2025

Cantab

Cantab

English

Noun

Cantab ‎(plural Cantabs)

(colloquial) A graduate of Cambridge University.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.110:
  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).

Abbreviation

Cantab

(after a qualification) Cantabrigian.