ANGLIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anglian mean? 

• ANGLIAN (noun)
  The noun ANGLIAN has 1 sense:

1. one of the major dialects of Old English

  Familiarity information: ANGLIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGLIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the major dialects of Old English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Anglian" is a kind of...):

Anglo-Saxon; Old English (English prior to about 1100)

 Context examples 

Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the Nottingham woodmen into the service of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten score of us left, yet I trust that I may be able to bring some back with me to fill the ranks of the White Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)