Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A member of a West Germanic tribal group that inhabited northern Germany and invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. with the Angles and Jutes.
- n. A person of English or Lowland Scots birth or descent as distinguished from one of Irish, Welsh, or Highland Scots birth or descent.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
- n. The West Germanic language of any of the ancient Saxon peoples.
- n. The Germanic element of English as distinguished from the French and Latin elements.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of the nation or people which formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries; also, one of their descendants. See Angle, Anglo-Saxon, and Jute.
- n. One of the English race or English-speaking races. A member of the English-speaking races as distinguished from other races or races speaking other languages; an Englishman, American, Canadian, Australian, etc.
- n. An Englishman, as distinguished from an Irishman.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Saxony in its later German sense. The modern Saxon lands are in central Germany, and comprise the kingdom of Saxony, the grand duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, the duchies of Saxe-Altenburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and Saxe-Meiningen, and part of the province of Saxony in Prussia.
- n. The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon; by extension, modern English speech of Saxon or Anglo-Saxon origin; English diction composed mainly of Saxon words, and not Latinized or of classical or other origin. See Anglo-Saxon. Abbreviated Sax.
- n. In entomology, the noctuid moth Hadena rectilinea: an English collectors' name.
- Pertaining to the Saxons (in any sense), their country, or language; Anglo-Saxon.
- Of or pertaining to the later Saxons in Germany.
- The blue obtained on wool by the use of Saxony blue. It is brighter than the blue of the indigo-vat, but not so fast to light or alkalis.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
- n. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
- n. The language of the ancient Saxons.
- adj. Of or relating to the Saxons.
- adj. Of or relating to Saxony.
- adj. Of or relating to the Saxon language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
- n. Also used in the sense of
Anglo-Saxon . - n. A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
- n. The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
- adj. Anglo-Saxon.
- adj. Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.
WordNet 3.0
- 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
- 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
Etymologies
- From Middle English *Saxon, Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon ("Saxon"), from Late Latin Saxonem, accusative of Saxo ("a Saxon"), from West Germanic *Sahsô, probably originally a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsan (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sÁk-, *sek- (“to cut”). Cognate with Middle Low German Sasse ("someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German"), Old English Seaxa ("a Saxon"), Old High German Sahso ("a Saxon"), Icelandic Saxi ("a Saxon"), Old English seax ("a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger"). More at sax. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Late Latin Saxō, Saxon-, of Germanic origin; see sek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- _Observations upon Saxon heraldry_, with drawings of _Saxon atchievements_, &c.p. 245.”
“But there was a community, or rather group of communities, living in Britain before the Conquest under what we call Saxon names, and of a blood probably more Germanic and certainly less French than the same communities after the Conquest.”
“Blue-eyed, strong-featured, in Saxon's opinion he was undeniably handsome.”
“Be brave," she said, with low earnestness, in Saxon's ear.”
“The phrase was an incessant iteration in Saxon's brain.”
“The tears were in Saxon's eyes, and she could have cried over the manhandled body of her beautiful sick boy.”
“The Anglo-Saxon is strong of arm and heavy of hand, and he possesses a primitive brutality all his own.”
“The Anglo-Saxon is a pirate, a land robber and a sea robber.”
“Anglo-Saxon is not meant merely the people of that tight little island on the edge of the Western Ocean.”
“Now the Anglo-Saxon is so constituted that to brow-beat or bully him is the last way under the sun of getting him to do any certain thing.”
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