West Saxon

  1. the Old English dialect of the West Saxons, the major literary dialect of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex before the Conquest
  2. a person born or living in Wessex (the kingdom)

See West Saxon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. The dialect of Old English used in southern England that was the chief literary dialect of England before the Norman Conquest.
  2. One of the Saxons inhabiting Wessex during the centuries before the Norman Conquest.
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