Saxons

Noun

Saxon (plural Saxons)

1. A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
   • 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.1881, John Kirby Hedges, The history of Wallingford, volume 1, page 170
2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony, Germany.
   • [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbricht's Communist regime, [...]2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142
3. (Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
   • Then came the call to arms, love, the heather was aflame / Down from the silent mountains, the Saxon strangers came.1973, Sean McCarthy, “Shanagolden”
4. (US, dated, rare, uncountable) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
5. A kind of rapidly spinning ground-based firework.

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