Anglo-Saxon
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- noun
- /ˈæŋɡloʊˈsæksən/
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anglosajón
- The Anglo-Saxons recognized the following crimes: treason, homicide, wounding, assault, rape, and theft.
If you're going to ask me what group I identify as a race, I'm going to say Anglo-Saxon, right?
- If you're going to ask me what group I identify as a race, I'm going to say Anglo-Saxon, right?
- Swords were also the most prestigious weapon, most prestigious type of fighting implement for the early Anglo Saxons.
- For Lovecraft, they weren't, you know, it was Anglo Saxons.
Examples
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And my mom is Anglo-Saxon, white Christian, born in Isleworth.
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While the Vikings divided up the land, Wessex now stood alone, the last Anglo-Saxon Kingdom not to fall.
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You were adopted into a white, a white Anglo-Saxon, as it were, Protestant family.
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Although many sites were soon reoccupied, they received new names from their Anglo-Saxon settlers.
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So the original setting of the Arthurian stories is that of the resistance to the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
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They would eventually settle in the Frankish Empire and in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England.
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It fills my soul with a passion of pride that I, too, am an Anglo-Saxon.
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It was Athelstan who first came to rule over all Anglo Saxons who he united into one realm, the Kingdom of England.
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The Anglo-Saxons settled in England around the 5th century and shaped its early culture.
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Many historians study the Anglo-Saxons to understand the linguistic roots of modern English.
Synonyms
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A person from a Germanic people who settled in England in the early Middle Ages
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Morphology
Etymology
Anglo-Saxon comes from the names of two groups, the Angles and the Saxons. The name Saxon comes from an old word seax meaning 'knife' and England was once 'land of the Angles', so Anglo-Saxon refers to the people who lived in early England before the Normans came.