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nouna member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquesttype of:
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adjectiveof or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language
Definition that contains saxon
- charles king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814)
- angle a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
- kent a county in southeastern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the Romans
- saxon of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language
- saxon a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest
- hastings the decisive battle in which William the Conqueror (duke of Normandy) defeated the Saxons under Harold II (1066) and thus left England open for the Norman Conquest
- wasp a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
- halle a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries
- wessex a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
- sussex a county in southern England on the English Channel; formerly an Anglo-Saxon kingdom that was captured by Wessex in the 9th century