Saracen Definition

sărə-sən
noun
A member of any of the nomadic tribes of Syria and nearby regions.
Webster's New World
Any Arab or any Muslim, esp. at the time of the Crusades.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of the Saracens or their culture.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Saracen

Noun

Singular:
Saracen
Plural:
saracens

Origin of Saracen

  • Middle English from Old English from Late Latin Saracēnus from Late Greek Sarakēnos ultimately from Arabic šarq east, sunrise śrq in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Saracen Sentence Examples

  • In neither department did any Saracen, strictly speaking, invent anything; but they learned much both from Constantinople and from Persia, and what they learned they largely developed and improved.

  • Under Byzantium it remained nominally until the 10th century, when we find the chief magistrate still bearing the title of apXow.3 In the 8th century 4 (720) the period of Saracen invasion began; but the Saracens never secured a firm footing in the island.

  • In one place the Christians were in utter bondage, in another they were simply tributary; still, everywhere the Mussulman Saracen formed the ruling class, the Christian Greek formed the subject class.

  • Besides these two main races, Greek and Saracen, others came in through the Norman invasion itself.

  • The Normans in Sicily, so far as they did not die out, were merged, not in a Sicilian nation, for that did not exist, but in the common mass of settlers of Latin speech and rite, as distinguished from the older inhabitants, Greek and Saracen.

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Words Starting With

SSASAR

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