What is the meaning of Saxon?

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

  • 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.
    • usage: "Saxon princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"
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