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Definitions of saxon in various dictionaries:
noun - a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
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
A member of a West Germanic tribal group that inhabited northern Germany and invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries A.
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| Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian West Saxon were the major dialects of this, spoken until about 1100 |
| The main source on 9th-12th Century England is this hyphenated "chronicle" named for 2 groups |
| It refers to a member of the English-speaking people inhabiting England before the Norman Conquest |
| Also called Old English, it's the hyphenated term for the first stage in the development of our language |
| Certain Americans of British ancestry:WASP |
| It's a synonym for Old English, spoken before about 1150 |
| Saxon description |
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| The Saxons (Latin: Saxones, German: Sachsen, Old English: Seaxe, Old Saxon: Sahson, Low German: Sassen, Dutch: Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Latin: Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany. Earlier, in the late Roman Empire, the name was used to refer to Germanic inhabitants of what is now England, and also as a word something like the later "Viking", as a term for raiders and pirates. In Merovingian times, continental Saxons were associated with the coast of what later became Normandy. Though sometimes described as also fighting inland, coming in conflict with the Franks and Thuringians, no clear homeland can be defined. There is possibly a single classical reference to a smaller homeland of an early Saxon tribe, but it is disputed. According to this proposal, the Saxons' earliest area of settlement is believed to have been Northern Albingia. This general area is close to the probable homela |