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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