saxon

adjective

1. 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

- Saxon princes

- for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one

noun

1. 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

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