ANGLO-SAXON


Meaning of ANGLO-SAXON in English

| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|saksən noun

Usage: capitalized A&S

Etymology: New Latin Anglo-Saxones, plural, alteration of Medieval Latin Angli Saxones, from Latin Angli Angles + Late Latin Saxones Saxons — more at angle , saxon

1.

a. : an Angle, Saxon, or Jute who came to England in the 5th century A.D.

b. : a descendant of one of these Anglo-Saxons

2. : englishman ; broadly : a person of English ancestry descended from the Anglo-Saxons : a white gentile whose native tongue is English

3. : the language of the Anglo-Saxon people : old english — see indo-european languages table

4. : the Germanic element present in the English language since the emergence of the latter as a separate entity

5.

a. : forthright direct plain English

b. : English employing words considered crude or vulgar

the word-of-mouth version, which has come through generations of army men, is more bluntly Anglo-Saxon — Roger Butterfield

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.