a city in southern England to the northwest of London; site of Oxford University, a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner, A shoe of a particular sort, adjective_ Of or pertaining to the city or university of Oxford, England, a kind of shoe, laced on the instep, and usually covering the foot nearly to the ankle, a name given to those members of the Church of England who adopted the theology of the so-called Oxford ?Tracts for the Times,? issued the period 1833 -- 1841