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Saxon

//ˈsæksən// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Of, from or relating to Saxony, Germany.
  3. 3
    Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Saxon language.
  4. 4
    Of, relating to, or characteristic of England, typically as opposed to a Celtic nationality. Ireland, Wales, poetic

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendants (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of the ancient Saxons.
  2. 2
    The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.

    "Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak Saxon, […]"

  3. 3
    A surname.
  4. 4
    A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
  5. 5
    A place name:; A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
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  1. 6
    A place name:; An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
  2. 7
    A place name:; A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
  3. 8
    A place name:; A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.

    "[...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]"

  4. 4
    An English/British person. Ireland, Wales, poetic

    "Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came."

  5. 5
    A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type. US, dated, rare, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

Etymology 2

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

Etymology 3

Partially from Middle English Saxe, Sax; from Old English *Seaxa (attested in plural Seaxan), and Saxoun, from Old French *Saxoun, Saxon (“Saxon”), from Late Latin Saxōnem, accusative of Saxō (“a Saxon”), both from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“rock, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of Sais. Cognates Cognate with Middle Low German sasse (“someone speaking Saxon, i.e. (Middle) Low German”), Old English Seaxa (“a Saxon”), Old High German Sahso (“a Saxon”), Icelandic Saxi (“a Saxon”), Estonian saks (“lord; German”), Finnish Saksa (“Germany”). Also cognate to Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”); more at sax.

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