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