redbrick

adj.
Of, relating to, or being the British universities other than Oxford and Cambridge.

[So-called because many of the buildings of such universities were built of red bricks.]

(RED-brik)

adjective
Lacking prestige.

Etymology
The term usually describes universities. A redbrick university is one built in the UK in the late 19th or early 20th century, as opposed to the older prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge. The term is mostly used in the UK. A contrasting term in the US is Ivy League. An Ivy League university is one of several in the northeastern US that have high prestige and a reputation for scholastic achievement. The term alludes to the age of the universities reflected in the ivy that festoons the outside walls of the buildings on campus

Usage
"To date, the novel that has done most to make [David] Lodge's name as a writer of fiction has been Changing Places, a funny study of two English professors -- one from a dowdy English redbrick university, the other from a thinly disguised Berkeley." — Nicholas Pashley; Arthurian Academics; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Jul 7, 1984.

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rødsten-, af røde (mur)sten

Nederlands (Dutch)
provinciaal (Britse universiteit)

Français (French)
adj. - (Univ) d'Oxford, (Univ) de Cambridge

Deutsch (German)
adj. - weniger traditionsreich (Universität)

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (Βρετ.) (για πανεπιστήμιο) που ιδρύθηκε σχετικά πρόσφατα

Italiano (Italian)
rosso mattone, recente, provinciale

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - cor de tijolo

Русский (Russian)
провинциальный университет

Español (Spanish)
adj. - universidad de reciente fundación, edificio de ladrillo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - tegel

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
新大学的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 新大學的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 붉은 벽돌의, 근대에 창립된

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 近代に創立された
n. - 新大学

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) الطوب الناري الأحمر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮אוניברסיטה אנגלית שנוסדה בין סוף המאה ה-91 לתחילת המאה ה-02‬

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