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English
Proper noun
the Cambridges pl (plural only)
- (informal) The family of the Duke of Cambridge.
1838 September 8, Giles St. Aubyn, editor, The Royal George, 1819-1904: The Life of H.R.H. Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, published 1963, page 33:“I then spoke with Lord Melbourne,” wrote the Queen on September 8, 1838, “about the Cambridges, and about George, and if I ought to ask him to stay, which Ma hinted at.”
1848 January 5, Eleanor Stanley, Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Maid of Honour to Her Late Majesty Queen Victoria, 1842-1862, pages 162–163:The Cambridges are here, the whole family, Duke and Duchess, Prince George and Princess Mary, the latter really very pretty; […]
2014, Robert Jobson, The New Royal Family: Prince George, William and Kate, The Next Generation, John Blake Publishing, →ISBN:The first significant moment in the Cambridges’ diary was their son’s Christening on 23 October 2013.
Usage notes
Usage in the singular (e.g., the Cambridge family) is less common.