Anglo-saxon : adj : of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language;
"Anglo-Saxon poetry"; "The Anglo-Saxon population of
Scotland" [syn: Anglo-Saxon]
(noun)
1: a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman
conquest [syn: Anglo-Saxon]
2: a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose
native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly
influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White
Anglo-Saxon Protestant'; "this Anglo-Saxon view of things"
[syn: Anglo-Saxon]
3: English prior to about 1100 [syn: Old English, Anglo-Saxon]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Anglo-saxon : \An"glo-Sax"on\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Anglo- \An"glo-\[NL. Anglus English. See Anglican.]
A combining form meaning the same as English; or English and,
or English conjoined with; as, Anglo-Turkish treaty,
Anglo-German, Anglo-Irish.
Anglo-American, . Of or pertaining to the English and
Americans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America.
-- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America,
or the United States.
Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes,
or to the Danes who settled in England.
Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India,
or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. --
n. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the
East Indies.
Anglo-Norman, a. Of or pertaining to the English and
Normans, or to the Normans who settled in England. -- n.
One of the English Normans, or the Normans who conquered
England.
Anglo-Saxon. See Anglo-Saxon in the Vocabulary.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Anglo-saxon : \An"glo-Sax"on\, n. [L. Angli-Saxones English
Saxons.]
1. 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.
2. pl. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of
England, or the English people, collectively, before the
Norman Conquest.
It is quite correct to call [AE]thelstan ``King of
the Anglo-Saxons,'' but to call this or that subject
of [AE]thelstan ``an Anglo-Saxon'' is simply
nonsense. --E. A.
Freeman.
3. The language of the English people before the Conquest
(sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
4. 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. Germans[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis
origin.]
1. A native or one of the people of Germany.
2. The German language.
3.
(a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
in capriciosly involved figures.
(b) A social party at which the german is danced.
High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern
Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th
to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the
15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of
Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern
literary language, are often called Middle German, and the
Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is
also used to cover both groups.
Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the
Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or
Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its
dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low
German), spoken in many dialects.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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