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Saxon

DEFINITIONS OF: Saxon

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adj 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

Saxon princes”
“for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one”

n 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

Examples:
Athelstan
the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)
Types:
West Saxon
an inhabitant of Wessex
Type of:
European
a native or inhabitant of Europe
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