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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The English language from the middle of the 5th to the beginning of the 12th century. Also called Anglo-Saxon.
  2. n. Printing See black letter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives. In addition to singular and plural grammatical numbers, there was a dual number for two people. After ca. 884, many Old Norse words made their way into Old English, as Norse settlers in the Danelaw interacted with native Anglo-Saxons.
  2. n. Middle English.
  3. n. The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has 5 cases of nouns and adjectives. In addition to singular and plural grammatical numbers, there was a dual number for two people. After ca. 884, many Old Norse words made their way into Old English, as Norse settlers in the Danelaw interacted with native Anglo-Saxons.
  4. n. Middle English.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. See under English. n., 2.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. English prior to about 1100

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