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noun(Sax-on)a member of a Germanic people that entered and conquered England with the Angles and Jutes in the fifth century a.d. and merged with them to form the Anglo-Saxon people
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noun(Sax-on)an Englishman or lowlander as distinguished from a Welshman, Irishman, or Highlander
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noun(Sax-on)a native or inhabitant of Saxony
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noun(Sax-on)a member of the Germanic peoples conquering England in the fifth century a.d. and forming the ruling class until the Norman conquest
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noun(Sax-on)englishman; specifically : a person descended from the Anglo-Saxons
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noun(Sax-on)a white gentile of an English-speaking nation
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noun(Sax-on)the language of the Saxons of northwest Germany until about the 12th century
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noun(Sax-on)a member or a descendant of the Saxons who occupied England largely south of the Thames, west of the Downs, and east of Dartmoor
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noun(Sax-on)a dialect of Old English used as the chief literary dialect in England before the Norman Conquest