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Saxon

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Noun

1. saxon

a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

Adjective

2. saxon

of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language

Example Sentences:
'Saxon princes'
'for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Saxon

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noun
1. 
a member of a West Germanic people who in Roman times spread from Schleswig across NW Germany to the Rhine. Saxons raided and settled parts of S Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries ad. In Germany they established a duchy and other dominions, which changed and shifted through the centuries, usually retaining the name Saxony
2. 
a native or inhabitant of Saxony
3. 
a. 
the Low German dialect of Saxony
b. 
any of the West Germanic dialects spoken by the ancient Saxons or their descendants
adjective
4. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient Saxons, the Anglo-Saxons, or their descendants
5. 
of, relating to, or characteristic of Saxony, its inhabitants, or their Low German dialect

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Saxon

see synonyms of saxon
noun
1. 
a member of an ancient Germanic people of northern Germany: some Saxons invaded and conquered parts of England in the 5th and 6th cent. a.d.
2. 
Anglo-Saxon (sense 1) Anglo-Saxon (sense 4)
3. 
a person born or living in modern Saxony
4. 
any of the Low German dialects of the Saxon peoples, as the dialect of modern Saxony
adjective
5. 
of the Saxons or their language or culture
6. 
English or Anglo-Saxon
7. 
of modern Saxony

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Saxon

see synonyms of saxon
n.
1. A member of a West Germanic tribal group that inhabited northern Germany and invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries AD with the Angles and Jutes.
2. A person of English or Lowland Scots birth or ancestry as distinguished from one of Irish, Welsh, or Highland Scots birth or ancestry.
3. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
4. The West Germanic language of any of the ancient Saxon peoples.
5. The Germanic element of English as distinguished from the French and Latin elements.

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