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| Noun | 1. A native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman Conquest.[Wordnet] 2. A person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon Protestant'; "in the ninth century the Vikings began raiding the Anglo-Saxons in Britain"; "his ancestors were not just British, they were Anglo-Saxons".[Wordnet] 3. English prior to about 1100.[Wordnet] 4. 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.[Websters] 5. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.[Websters] 6. The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English).[Websters] 7. 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.[Websters]. | |
| Adjective | 1. Of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language; "Anglo-Saxon poetry"; "The Anglo-Saxon population of Scotland".[Wordnet] 2. Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.[Websters] 3. Adjective base of the adverb anglo-saxonly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (anglo-saxonly) |
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective anglo-saxon.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"Anglo-saxon" is a common misspelling or typo for: anglo-saxons. |
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Date "Anglo-saxon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1692. (references) |
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| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Pertaining to the Saxons, who settled in England, or English Saxons.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (economics) Favouring a liberal free market economy. (references) | ||
| 2: [Adjective] (US) Descended from white English or North European settlers. (references) | |||
| 3: [Adjective] Related to nations which speak primarily English; especially United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia. (references) | |||
| 4: [Adjective] Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language. (references) | |||
| 5: [Proper noun] (US) A person of British or North European descent. (references) | |||
| 6: [Proper noun] (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person. (references) | |||
| 7: [Proper noun] Germanic peoples inhabiting medi�val England. (references) | |||
| 8: [Proper noun] The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has five cases of nouns and adjectives. (references) | |||
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| Anglo-Saxon architecture | Anglo-Saxon architecture was a period in the history of architecture in England, and parts of Wales, from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon art | Anglo-Saxon art covers the period from the time of King Alfred (871-899), with the revival of English culture after the end of the Viking raids, to the early 12th century, when Romanesque art became the new movement. Prior to King Alfred there had been the Hiberno-Saxon culture (the fusion of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic techniques and motifs) which had ceased with the Vikings. This mostly comprises works of embroidery, jewelry and metalworking, and manuscript illumination. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon deity | (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Anglo-Saxon economy | Anglo-Saxon capitalism (so called because it is largely practiced in English speaking countries such as the UK and the United States) is a capitalist macroeconomic model in which levels of regulation and taxes are low. In addition, Anglo-Saxon economies generally are more 'liberal' and free-market oriented than other capitalist economies in the world. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon Futhorc | The Anglo-Saxon Futhorc are a runic alphabet, extended from the Elder Futhark, consisting of 29, and later even 33 characters. It was used probably from the 5th century onward. There are competing theories as to the origins of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. One theory proposes that it was developed in Frisia and later spread to England. Another holds that runes were introduced by Scandinavians to England where the futhorc was modified and exported to Frisia. Both theories have their inherent weaknesses and a definitive answer likely awaits more archaeological evidence. Futhorc inscriptions are found for example on the Thames scramasax, in the Vienna Codex, in Cotton MS Otho B (†) and on the Ruthwell Cross. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon gods | The Anglo-Saxon gods were cognate to the gods of Norse mythology in particular and of Germanic mythology in general. Very little information has survived about them, and it is uncertain whether they should be considered distinct from their Nordic counterparts. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon kingdom genealogy | According to Thor Heyerdahl, Snorri Sturluson's list in the Younger Edda could not have been a copy of the 300-year older Anglo-Saxon chronicles: he would not have ended the genealogy when he did but copied the complete list. Hence, he states in The search for Odin that this can be viewed as evidence for Odin in fact being a historical person, fathering a series of Anglo-Saxon kings who later conquered England and formed new kingdoms there. (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon names | Honorifics were often added after names, rather than before. For example, King Edmund was "Edmund cyning". In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the culture of the Rohirrim is based on that of the Anglo-Saxons, and so Theoden, their king, is referred to as "Theoden King", rather than "King Theoden". (references) | ||
| Anglo-Saxon religion | Anglo-Saxon religion, both historical and modern revivals, is based on the religious practices and beliefs of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes of ancient, pre-Christian England. It is considered a subset of Heathenry in general. (references) | ||
| Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon | The Elrington and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon is the senior professorship in Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge. (references) | ||
| History of Anglo-Saxon England | The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th century until the Conquest by the Normans in 1066. The 5th and 6th centuries are known archaeologically as Sub-Roman Britain, or in popular history as the "Dark Ages"; from the 6th century larger distinctive kingdoms are developing, still known to some as the Heptarchy; the arrival of the Vikings at the end of the 8th century brought many changes to Britain, and relations with the continent were important right up to the 'end' of Anglo-Saxon England, traditionally held to be the Norman Conquest. (references) | ||
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Extended Definition: Anglo-SaxonAnglo-SaxonAnglo-Saxon may refer to:
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