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Added 9 October 2026

saxon

noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about saxon at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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.

adjective

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 princes

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