saxon
IPA: sˈæksʌn
Root Word: Saxon
noun
- A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
- A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
- (uncountable, US printing, rare, dated) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
- (Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
- A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
- The language of the ancient Saxons.
- The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
- A surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
- A place name:
- A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
adjective
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of Saxony.
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
- (Ireland, Wales, poetic) Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
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Examples of "saxon" in Sentences
- He is one of the consanguinities with the Saxon kings.
- Darling is a term of endearment of Anglo Saxon origin.
- He is said to have had consanguinity with the Saxon kings.
- The greater part has an interlinear Anglo Saxon translation.
- Anglo Saxon art is the art of England after the Insular period.
- Anglo Saxon poetry is marked by the comparative rarity of similes.
- The Confessor was actually the third Saxon king by the name of Edward.
- It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government.
- Beforehand, the article just bloviated on the Saxon nature of the English.
- He organized the Saxon emigration to the United States in the early 1800s.
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