Anglo-Saxon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a member of the Germanic-speaking peoples who settled in England from the fifth century and whose kingdoms preceded Norman rule

   The burial ground contained objects made by an Anglo-Saxon in the seventh century.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to the Anglo-Saxons, their culture, or the period of English history before the Norman Conquest

   The manuscript preserves an Anglo-Saxon poem about exile.

3. 3
   noun

   the Old English language

   The scholar compared the Anglo-Saxon text with its modern English translation.

4. 4
   noun

   dated or imprecise: a person of English or broadly northern European ancestry

   Modern historians avoid using Anglo-Saxon as a vague racial category.

From Medieval Latin Angli Saxones, 'English Saxons,' combining the names of the Angles and Saxons and distinguishing them from continental Saxons. Historical use concerns early medieval England; later racial uses are often vague, dated, or ideologically loaded.

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