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/ˈæŋgloʊ-sˈæksən/ Listen

noun

Anglo-Saxon n.

A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

pl. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest. "It is quite correct to call AEthelstan "King of the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject of AEthelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense."

The language of the English people before the Norman conquest in 1066 (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

Synonyms: Old English

One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

A person of Anglo-Saxon (esp British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in "WASP for 'White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'"; "this Anglo-Saxon view of things".

adjective

Anglo-Saxon adj.

Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language; as, Anglo-Saxon poetry; The Anglo-Saxon population of Scotland.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... of property. Property means ownership, and "ownership" is the abstract noun expressing the quality of possessing a thing. Correspondingly, "owner" is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of "proprietor." Property thus, fundamentally, means not an object held, or possessed, but the right in or belonging to a person to control something that he owns. Ownership is a legal right to control ...

— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... institutions for half a century without acquiring any of the characteristics of a free people; that Englishmen renounce every political opinion and feeling when they enter a colony, or that the spirit of Anglo-Saxon freedom is utterly changed and weakened among those who ...

— Lord Elgin • John George Bourinot

... of sincerity; few, I think, in the right, in the sincerity throughout, and in the success as well. The delusion, that the North, after using up its Irish and German population and its incoming immigrants, would quail before the necessity of hazarding also a large proportion of its own settled Anglo-Saxon population, was extremely prevalent. Equally prevalent the notion that the North was fighting merely for a constitutional idea, or for national integrity, predominance, or (as Lord Russell phrased it) "for empire," without any real regard for the ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various

... refinement, without prohibition from men or remonstrance from women. It is a fruit of the modern English system of game preserving;... and the artificial love of sport which cruel Norman tradition has fostered in the stolid Anglo-Saxon race." [Footnote: "On Cruelty" (Miscellanies, III, by Francis W. Newman).] It is an unassailable truth that if you look for the last remains of barbarity in a civilized nation you will find them in their sports. But I confess ...

— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking

... his death, and was succeeded in 1683 by Joseph and Robert Andrews, who, in addition to Moxon's founts, had a large assortment of others. Their foundry was particularly rich in Roman and Italic, and the learned founts, and they also had matrices of Anglo-Saxon and Irish. But their work was not by any ...

— A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 • Henry R. Plomer

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