Definition of saxon Saxon

/sæˈksʌn/ - [saksun] - Sax•on

We found 16 definitions of saxon from 5 different sources.

What does saxon mean?

Noun
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
		european a native or inhabitant of Europe
		west saxon a literary dialect of Old English
Adjective Saxon, saxonner, saxonnest
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 princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"
		england a division of the United Kingdom

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saxon (Noun)
A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
saxon (Noun)
A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
saxon (Adjective)
Of or relating to the Saxons.
saxon (Adjective)
Of or relating to Saxony.
saxon (Adjective)
Of or relating to the Saxon language.

saxon (n.)
One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries.
saxon (n.)
Also used in the sense of Anglo-Saxon.
saxon (n.)
A native or inhabitant of modern Saxony.
saxon (n.)
The language of the Saxons; Anglo-Saxon.
saxon (a.)
Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or their language.
saxon (a.)
Anglo-Saxon.
saxon (a.)
Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants.

saxon
saks′un, n. one of the people of North Germany who conquered England in the 5th and 6th centuries: the language of the Saxons: one of the English race: a native or inhabitant of Saxony in its later German sense: a Lowlander of Scotland: modern English.—adj. pertaining to the Saxons, their language, country, or architecture.—n. Sax′ondom, the Anglo-Saxon world.—adj. Saxon′ic.—v.t. Sax′onise, to impregnate with Saxon ideas.—ns. Sax′onism, a Saxon idiom; Sax′onist, a Saxon scholar.—Saxon architecture, a style of building in England before the Norman Conquest, marked by the peculiar 'long and short' work of the quoins, the projecting fillets running up the face of the walls and interlacing like woodwork, and the baluster-like shafts between the openings of the upper windows resembling the turned woodwork of the period; Saxon blue, a deep liquid blue used in dyeing; Saxon green, a green colour; Saxon shore (Litus Saxonicum), in Roman times, the coast districts of Britain from Brighton northwards to the Wash, peculiarly exposed to the attacks of the Saxons from across the North Sea, and therefore placed under the authority of a special officer, the 'Count of the Saxon Shore.' [A.S. Seaxe—seax, Old High Ger. sahs, a knife, a short sword.]