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A Saxon was a person from a Germanic people of northern Europe who, from the fifth century, crossed the sea and settled in what we now call England, together with the Angles and the . Their speech is one deep root of English. The name is very old. It comes through Old English and Old French and Latin from a West Germanic word for a rock or a knife — the seax, a kind of short sword — and that sits on an older root meaning “to cut.” You can still see the people in English place-names: Essex is the East Saxons, Sussex the South, the West. In a history class, Saxon is this people; Anglo-Saxon is the later English world they helped make. Though actually the word is also used for people of Saxony in Germany, which is a cousin story, not the same snapshot. And in some places Anglo-Saxon is stretched to mean “white English-speaking culture”; that is , not the fifth-century meaning, and it can carry a sharp edge. For this word, keep the old in mind.

組成From Old English and Old French, and from Latin Saxō, back to a Germanic word for a rock or knife (the seax), from an older root meaning “to cut.”

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Saxonnoun/ˈsæksən/

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A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
- Kenett states that the military works still known by the name of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.
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A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
- [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
- The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
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An English/British person.
- Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
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datedraremediaprintingpublishingA size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
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A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.

Saxonname/ˈsæksən/

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The language of the ancient Saxons.
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Upper Saxon, a dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
- Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]
- But does this mean that Germans nowadays speak Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.
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A surname.
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A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
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Saxonadj/ˈsæksən/

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Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxons.
- But his bitch queen was Saxon to the bone and her legacy showed in the sons that Vortigern bred off her. Katigern Minor might be young, but he has become what his grandfather never was – more Saxon than Celt.
- Eadyth managed to make one of her beekeeping veils into a bridal veil hanging from a circlet of Drifa’s flowers. All this attire was more Saxon than Norse. So she wore her hair in one long braid, Viking style, and at her shoulder was a brooch in a writhing, intertwined animal design. / Her sisters looked just as lovely in their bright gowns, Tyra’s Saxon style, but the others pure Viking.
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Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
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Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality.
- He was a large, very Saxon type of man; that is to say, an English one, having shed the vices and cruelties and developed the patience and cool-headedness.

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