Saxon Definition

săksən
noun
A member of an ancient Germanic people of N Germany: some Saxons invaded and conquered parts of England in the 5th and 6th cent. a.d.
Webster's New World
A person of English or Lowland Scots birth or ancestry as distinguished from one of Irish, Welsh, or Highland Scots birth or ancestry.
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Anglo-Saxon.

Webster's New World
A person born or living in modern Saxony.
Webster's New World
Any of the Low German dialects of the Saxon peoples, as the dialect of modern Saxony.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of the Saxons or their language or culture.
Webster's New World
English or Anglo-Saxon.
Webster's New World
Of modern Saxony.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Saxon

Noun

Singular:
Saxon
Plural:
saxons

Origin of Saxon

  • Middle English from Late Latin Saxō Saxon- of Germanic origin sek- in Indo-European roots

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

Saxon Sentence Examples

  • Many of the ancient oaks that remain in England may date from Saxon times, and some perhaps from an earlier period; the growth of trees after the trunk has become hollow is extremely slow, and the age of such venerable giants only matter of vague surmise.

  • In the extremity of his fortunes he had recourse himself to Otto, making a formal cession of the Italian kingdom, in his own name and that of his son Adalbert, to the Saxon as his overlord.

  • Otto entered Lombardy Saxon in 961, deposed Berengar, assumed the crown in San and FranAmbrogio at Milan, and in 962 was proclaimed conlan emperor by John XII.

  • Under the imperial rule of Lothar the Saxon (1125-1137) and Conrad the Swabian (1138I I 52), these civil wars increased in violence owing to the absence of authority.

  • Certain enactments of later Saxon times in England have been sometimes spoken of as though they united together the temporal and spiritual jurisdictions into one mixed tribunal deriving its authority from the State.

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Words Starting With

SSASAX

Words Ending With

NONXON

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Words Starting With S and Ending With N

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