UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does University of Sussex mean? 

• UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (noun)
  The noun UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX has 1 sense:

1. a red-brick university in Brighton, England

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A red-brick university in Brighton, England

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Sussex University; University of Sussex

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("University of Sussex" is a part of...):

East Sussex (a county in southern England on the English Channel)

 Context examples 

Robert F. Curl Jr. and Richard E. Smalley, both of Rice University in Houston, Texas and Harold W. Kroto of the University of Sussex in England, won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene, the scientific name for buckyballs.

(Buckyball, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)