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Narrator: Today's word is "Red-Brick" — adjective, pronounced /ˌred ˈbrɪk/, with the stress on "brick".
Narrator: Red-brick means built of red bricks, or describing British universities founded in industrial cities around 1900.
Narrator: In plain English, it is red brick buildings, or those newer city universities.
Narrator: It joins red with brick.
Narrator: A common collocation is "red-brick university", which describes Manchester, Leeds or Birmingham, for example.
Narrator: It differs from "Oxbridge", because Oxbridge means the ancient universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Narrator: In a second sense, red-brick terraces are typical rows of Victorian houses.
Narrator: Education, architecture, property and history all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: red-brick means built of brick, and built for the modern city.
Speaker A: Where did your mum go to university?
Speaker B: A RED-BRICK in Liverpool! It joins red and brick.
Speaker A: Not Oxford?
Speaker B: No, and proud of it.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She studied at a red-brick university", education. "A row of red-brick terraces", a street. "The red-brick mill became flats", property.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: It is often written "redbrick" as one word for universities, so both forms are fine.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Civic is its cousin, Victorian its twin, and plate-glass an alternative — yet red-brick keeps its sturdy charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "red-brick" in AI prompts — useful for property listings and education guides.
Speaker A: How for property?
Speaker B: Describe homes.
Prompt: Write a listing for a three-bedroom red-brick Victorian terrace with original features.
Speaker A: And education?
Speaker B: Compare.
Prompt: Explain the difference between red-brick, Oxbridge and plate-glass universities.
Speaker A: Could it help images?
Speaker B: Yes, for scenes.
Prompt: Describe a rainy red-brick northern street at dusk for an illustration.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Heritage.
Prompt: Write a museum label about a red-brick textile mill from 1870.
Red brick — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary