anglo-saxon
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1. anglo-saxon - Noun
2. anglo-saxon - Adjective
3. Anglo-saxon - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest.
The language of the English people before the Conquest (sometimes called Old English). See Saxon.
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.
Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
anglo saxon
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I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than all other groups of hypocritical whites put together.
Broadly speaking, the rise of the supermanager is largely an Anglo-Saxon phenomenon.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.
English is the product of a Norman warrior trying to make a date with an Anglo-saxon bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.