a city in central England, on the Thames River; population 146,100 (est. 2009). Oxford University is located here
a Christian movement popularized in Oxford in the late 1920s, advocating discussion of personal problems by groups
a Christian movement started in Oxford, England, in 1833, seeking to restore traditional Catholic teachings and ceremony within the Church of England. Its leaders were John Keble, Edward Pusey, and (until he became a Roman Catholic) John Henry Newman. It formed the basis of the present Anglo-Catholic (or High Church) tradition
the oldest English university, comprising a federation of thirty-nine colleges, the first of which, University College, was formally founded in 1249. The university was established at Oxford soon after 1167
the largest dictionary of the English language, edited in Oxford and originally issued in instalments between 1884 and 1928
a comma used after the penultimate item in a list of three or more items, before ‘and’ or ‘or’ (e.g., an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect)
an organization founded by the American Lutheran evangelist Frank Buchman (1878–1961) and first popularized in Oxford, England, in the 1920s (hence until about 1938 called the Oxford Group Movement). It emphasizes personal integrity and confession of faults, cooperation, and mutual respect, especially as a basis for social transformation
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