| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|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