Saxon - What does it mean?
'Saxon' hits on the web
You may have been searching for a specific social media @Saxon profile or the tag #Saxon
Definition of 'Saxon'Noun
( en-noun)
A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
* 2002 , Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany , page 142:
- [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]
* 2005 , Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture , page 69:
- The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
* 2008 , Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela , page 40:
- Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons , Berliners and others back in Leipzig.
Proper noun
( en-proper noun)
The language of the ancient Saxons.
(surname)
of modern usage, from the surname, or directly from the noun Saxon.
Adjective
( -)
Of or relating to the Saxons.
Of or relating to Saxony.
Of or relating to the Saxon language.
(Ireland|poetic) English/British.
* Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.
- SHANAGOLDEN (Song) Sean McCarthy 1973.
See also
* Saxonian
Anagrams
*
|
