Old english

name, slang

name, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    English prior to about 1100 wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
  2. 2
    Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English. colloquial, nonstandard, proscribed

    "Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't."

  3. 3
    The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers. historical
  4. 4
    A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century. Ireland

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anglo-saxonanglo-saxon language

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"Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't."

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