Anglo-Saxon

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.

(2): (n.) The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.

(3): (n.) A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old") Saxon.

(4): (a.) Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.

(5): (n.) One of the race or people who claim descent from the Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in England; a person of English descent in its broadest sense.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]

The name usually assigned to the early inflected form of the English language.

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