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Saxon:
1. A member of a West Germanic tribal group
that inhabited northern Germany and invaded Britain in the fifth
and sixth centuries A.D. with the Angles and Jutes.
2. A person of English or Lowland Scots birth
or descent as distinguished from one of Irish, Welsh, or Highland
Scots birth or descent.
3. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
4. The West Germanic language of any of the
ancient Saxon peoples.
5. The Germanic element of English as distinguished
from the French and Latin elements.
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