WEST SAXON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does West Saxon mean? 

• WEST SAXON (noun)
  The noun WEST SAXON has 3 senses:

1. an inhabitant of Wessex

2. a literary dialect of Old English

3. a dialect of Middle English

  Familiarity information: WEST SAXON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEST SAXON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inhabitant of Wessex

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A literary dialect of Old English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

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

Sense 3

Meaning:

A dialect of Middle English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Southwestern; West Saxon

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

Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)

 Context examples 

“Little enough, good father, little enough,” said the novice, speaking English with a broad West Saxon drawl.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“God guard thee, my lord!” she answered, speaking in the broadest West Saxon speech, and balancing herself first on one foot and then on the other in her bashfulness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A quick cross-fire of greetings and questions and rough West Saxon jests flew from rank to rank, or were bandied about betwixt the marching archers and the gazing crowd.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)