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1. (n.) sizar
(at Cambridge University and at Trinity College, Dublin) an undergraduate who receives maintenance aid from the college.
Etymology: (1580–90; size1 (def. 7) + -ar3)
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1. (noun) sizar
one of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge (Eng.) and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford
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1. sizar
a poor student at the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, so called from the size or allowance of food they were recipients of out of the college buttery.
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