SAXON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saxon mean? 

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

1. a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

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

• SAXON (adjective)
  The adjective SAXON has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language

  Familiarity information: SAXON used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAXON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Saxon"):

West Saxon (an inhabitant of Wessex)

Instance hyponyms:

Athelstan (the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939))

Derivation:

Saxon (of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language)

• SAXON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one

Domain region:

England (a division of the United Kingdom)

Pertainym:

Saxon (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest)

Derivation:

Saxon (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest)

 Context examples 

Edricson came, however, of that sturdy Saxon blood which is very slowly heated, but once up not easily to be cooled.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why do you fill your head with Saxon and general culture?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Surrey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Alighting at the small wayside station, we drove for some miles through the remains of widespread woods, which were once part of that great forest which for so long held the Saxon invaders at bay—the impenetrable weald, for sixty years the bulwark of Britain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And then, as these full-blooded, powerful men became heated with their wine, angry eyes began to glare across the table, and amid the grey swirls of tobacco-smoke the lamp-light gleamed upon the fierce, hawk-like Jews, and the flushed, savage Saxons.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, finding loyal lovers in the little sons and daughters who cling to them, undaunted by sorrow, poverty, or age, walking side by side, through fair and stormy weather, with a faithful friend, who is, in the true sense of the good old Saxon word, the 'house-band', and learning, as Meg learned, that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His cheeks were flushed and his eyes shining, for the blood of a hundred fighting Saxon ancestors was beginning to stir in his veins.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That treasure has been hidden, he went on, in the region through which you came last night, there can be but little doubt; for it was the ground fought over for centuries by the Wallachian, the Saxon, and the Turk.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Why, Ruth studied Saxon, became clever in it,—that was two years ago,—and all that she remembers of it now is 'Whan that sweet Aprile with his schowers soote'—isn't that the way it goes?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)