Noun
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a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons
dominant in England until the Norman Conquest
Adjective
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of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language
"Saxon princes"
"for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"