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Anglo-Saxon art(encyclopedia)
Anglo-Saxon law(encyclopedia)
Anglo-Saxon(dictionary)
Anglo-Saxon literature(encyclopedia)
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The Saxon(tourism)

Anglo-Saxon (iou)



Anglo-Saxon noun & adjective. E17.
[mod. Latin Anglo-Saxones pl. for medieval Latin Angli Saxones, after Old English Angulseaxe, -seaxan.]
A. noun.
I. Applied to people.
An English Saxon (as distinct from one of the Old Saxons of Continental Europe); a (Germanic) native or inhabitant of England before the Norman Conquest. E17.
A person of English (or British) descent wherever found. M19.
II. Applied to language.
The language of England before the Norman Conquest; Old English. L18.
The English language (of any period); colloq. plain, esp. crude, forthright English. N. Amer. M19.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language (Old English); spec. designating, of, or pertaining to the period between the 5th-cent. conquest of Britain by the Saxons, Jutes, and Angles, and the Norman Conquest. E18.
Anglo-Saxondom noun the collective body of people of English or British descent M19.
Anglo-Saxonic adjective & noun (of) the Anglo-Saxon language L17-L18.
Anglo-Saxonism noun (a) the feeling of identity of Anglo-Saxondom; (b) a word, idiom, etc., deriving from Anglo-Saxon: M19.