RED-BRICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red-brick mean? 

• RED-BRICK (adjective)
  The adjective RED-BRICK has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century

  Familiarity information: RED-BRICK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED-BRICK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to British universities founded in the late 19th century or the 20th century

Synonyms:

red-brick; redbrick

Similar:

modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)

Domain category:

university (establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

It is but a small place, with an ivied church, a fine vicarage, and a row of red-brick cottages each in its own little garden.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An old red-brick mansion, used as a school, was in its place; and a fine old house it must have been to go to school at, as I recollect it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A few minutes later our driver pulled up at a neat little red-brick villa with overhanging eaves which stood by the road.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Doctor Strong looked almost as rusty, to my thinking, as the tall iron rails and gates outside the house; and almost as stiff and heavy as the great stone urns that flanked them, and were set up, on the top of the red-brick wall, at regular distances all round the court, like sublimated skittles, for Time to play at.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)