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redbrick

redbrick

1 4.2
Made of red bricks, like many houses and older buildings
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɛdˌbrɪk/
translation icon : de ladrillo rojo
  • redbrick building
  • redbrick house
  • redbrick wall

Examples

  • We trucked it in from downstate, a redbrick building.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I've said goodbye to the Diekman Circle, and it terrifies me when I think I've set myself on the trail of Frank Walsh, headed toward a redbrick grave among the living dead.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The library is located in a beautiful redbrick building surrounded by tall trees.

  • She admired the redbrick facade of the old theatre as she walked past.

  • Many students prefer to study in the redbrick university that has a rich history and beautiful architecture.

Compounds

redbrick university
  • UK
6.8

A British university founded in a city in the late 1800s or early 1900s with red brick buildings

Surface Forms

redbrick positive

Morphology

redbrick = red + brick (transparent) = red + brick

A straightforward descriptive compound meaning 'made of or consisting of red-coloured bricks'.

Etymology

Redbrick is just the words red and brick put together to describe a building made of red-coloured bricks, so think of a house that is literally 'red brick'. So redbrick means made of or looking like red bricks.