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/ˈsæksən/
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NOUN
- 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
ADJECTIVE
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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
for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one
Saxon princes
How To Use Saxon In A Sentence
- Rich, warm string tone, sweet, elegant winds, and mellow, sonorous brass are the hallmarks of the ‘Saxony sound’.
- He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
- Although the origins of the experimental child psychology are to be found in Germany, the new empirical and evolutionist child study was practiced mainly in the Anglo-Saxon world.
- That was built at about the time William the Conqueror was bonking Anglo-Saxons on the head.
- GODEFRIDUS-GOTRIC is credited with a third Saxon tribute, a heriot of The Danish History, Books I-IX
- An assortment of leather sheaths hang like washing on a line in a mocked-up Saxon trader's stall.
- The four stresses of the Anglo-Saxon verse are retained, and as much thesis and anacrusis is allowed as is consistent with a regular cadence. Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
- The Angles, Saxons, Danes, Frisians and other invaders intermarried with the existing Romano-British Celts, Romans, Jutes, Gauls, Greeks and Lombards.
- She points out that there is some irony in living in a "Lake House" without a lake and even though, as I pedantically remind her, the word lake is Anglo-Saxon for "running stream," which we do have, and not a standing body of water, which we don't, her logic does not escape me. Broken Music, A Memoir
- In others, such as Alessandro Allori's image of a magnificently dressed and bejeweled, strong-minded young woman c. 1580s, the name of the subject is unknown, while in still others, such as Jusepe de Ribera's imaginary portrait of an ancient philosopher or Lucas Cranach the Elder's modishly attired 16th-century Saxon charmer, we are given an ideal or a general type, rather than a specific individual. See Their Worlds in Their Faces