Meaning of Saxon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
2. The language of the ancient Saxons.
3. A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
4. The dialect of modern High German spoken in Saxony.
5. An English/British person.
   Ireland, Wales, poetic
6. A surname.
7. A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
   US, dated, rare, uncountable
8. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage or directly from the noun Saxon.
9. A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.
10. A place name:
11. A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
12. An unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States.
13. A town and census-designated place therein, in Iron County, Wisconsin, United States.
14. A municipality in Martigny district, Valais canton, Switzerland.

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Examples

“Kenett states that the military works still known by the name⟳ of Tadmarten Camp and Hook-Norton Barrow were cast⟳ up at this time ; the former, large and round, is judged to be a fortification of the Danes, and the latter, being smaller and rather a quinquangle than a square, of the Saxons.”

“[...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]”

“The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome⟳ the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.”

“Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.”

“Not everyone from the former GDR states are Saxons – and they do not all speak⟳ Saxon, […]”

“Then came the call⟳ to arms, love⟳, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.”

“But does this mean⟳ that Germans nowadays speak⟳ Saxon? Far from it, in fact; Saxon is the most widely despised dialect in Germany, by a wide margin.”

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