Anglo-Saxon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

II. Anglo-Saxon ·noun The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). ·see Saxon.

III. Anglo-Saxon ·noun The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.

IV. Anglo-Saxon ·noun A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

V. Anglo-Saxon ·noun One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

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