Anglo-Saxon

See also: anglosaxon and anglo-saxon

English

Alternative forms

• Anglosaxon (rare)

Etymology

Anglo- +‎ Saxon

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌæŋɡloʊˈsæksən/

Proper noun

Anglo-Saxon

1. The inflected ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.

Synonyms

• Old English

Holonyms

• Anglian
• Kentish
• Mercian
• Northumbrian
• West Saxon

Translations

Old English — see Old English

See also

• Early Modern English
• Early New English
• English
• Middle English
• Modern English
• New English
• Semi-Saxon

Noun

Anglo-Saxon (plural Anglo-Saxons)

1. A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
2. (US) A person of English ethnic descent.
3. (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned and/or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
4. (informal) Profanity, especially words derived from Old English.
   • 1995, Margaret Edson, Wit:

     I haven't eaten in two days. What's left to puke? You may remark that my vocabulary has taken a turn for the Anglo-Saxon.

   • 2008, Zagreus Mike Luoma, Neo-gnosis, →ISBN:

     How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)

Derived terms

• WASP

Translations

member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century

• Arabic: أَنْجْلُوسَكْسُونِيُّون‎ m pl (ʾanglosaksūniyyūn)
• Armenian: անգլո-սաքսոն (anglo-sakʿson)
• Catalan: anglosaxó (ca) m, anglosaxona (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 盎格魯-撒克遜人, 盎格鲁-撒克逊人 (Ànggélǔ-Sākèxùn rén)

• Danish: angelsakser c
• Dutch: Angelsaks
• Finnish: anglosaksit pl (in plural)
• French: Anglo-Saxon (fr) m, Anglosaxon m, Anglo-Saxonne (fr) f, Anglosaxonne f
• German: Angelsachse (de) m, Angelsächsin (de) f
• Hindi: आंग्ल सैक्सन (āṅgla saiksan)
• Irish: Angla-Shacsanach m
• Japanese: アングロサクソン (ja) (Anguro-Sakuson)
• Korean: ^앵글로색슨 사람 (Aenggeullosaekseun saram)
• Latin: Anglosaxones m pl (in plural)

• Macedonian: Англосаксонци pl (Anglosaksonci) (in plural)
• Malay: orang Inggeris Saxon, Inggeris Saxon
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angelsakser m

  Nynorsk: angelsaksar m

• Portuguese: anglo-saxão (pt) m
• Romanian: anglosaxon
• Russian: англоса́кс (ru) m (anglosáks)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Англосаксо́нац m, Англосаксонка f

  Roman: Anglosaksónac (sh) m, Anglosaksonka f

• Spanish: anglosajón (es) m, anglosajona (es) f
• Swedish: anglosaxare (sv) c, angelsaxare c

person of English ethnic descent

• Catalan: anglosaxó (ca) m, anglosaxona (ca) f
• Czech: Anglosas m
• Finnish: anglosaksilainen
• German: Angelsachse (de) m, Angelsächsin (de) f
• Irish: Angla-Shacsanach m
• Macedonian: Англосаксонец m (Anglosaksonec), Англосаксонка f (Anglosaksonka)

• Malay: orang Inggeris Saxon, Inggeris Saxon
• Portuguese: anglo-saxão (pt) m
• Romanian: anglosaxon m, anglosaxonă f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Англосаксо́нац m, Англосаксонка f

  Roman: Anglosaksónac (sh) m, Anglosaksonka f

Adjective

Anglo-Saxon (comparative more Anglo-Saxon, superlative most Anglo-Saxon)

1. Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
2. Related to nations which speak primarily English and influenced by English culture and customs; especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States.
   • 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 2:

     (Translated by Claire Jacobson and Brooke Schoepf.)

     [...] Ethnography thus aims at record-
     ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various
     groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative
     purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data
     provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same
     meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately
     to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth-
     nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.

3. (politics) Favouring a liberal free market economy.
4. (US) Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).

Translations

related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language

• Arabic: أَنْجْلُوسَكْسُونِيّ‎ (ʾanglusaksuniyy)
• Catalan: anglosaxó (ca)
• Danish: angelsaksisk
• Dutch: Angelsaksisch (nl)
• Finnish: anglosaksilainen
• French: anglo-saxon (fr)
• German: angelsächsisch (de)
• Greek: αγγλοσαξονικός (el) (anglosaxonikós)
• Hungarian: angolszász (hu)
• Irish: Angla-Shacsanach
• Kazakh: англосаксондық (anglosaksondıq)
• Macedonian: англосаксонски (anglosaksonski)
• Malay: Inggeris Saxon
• Manx: Anglo-Hostnagh

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: angelsaksisk

  Nynorsk: angelsaksisk

• Portuguese: anglo-saxão (pt), anglo-saxónico (Portugal), anglo-saxônico (Brazil)
• Romanian: anglosaxon, anglosaxonic
• Russian: англосаксо́нский (ru) (anglosaksónskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: англо̀саскӣ

  Roman: anglòsaskī (sh)

• Spanish: anglosajón (es)
• Swedish: anglosaxisk (sv)
• Talysh: անգլո-սաքսոնական
• Ukrainian: англосаксо́нський (uk) (anhlosaksónsʹkyj)

related to nations which speak primarily English

• Catalan: anglosaxó (ca)
• Czech: anglosaský (cs)
• Danish: angelsaksisk
• Finnish: anglosaksilainen
• Hungarian: angolszász (hu)
• Irish: Angla-Shacsanach
• Macedonian: англосаксонски (anglosaksonski)

• Malay: Inggeris Saxon
• Portuguese: anglófono (pt)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: англо̀саскӣ

  Roman: anglòsaskī (sh)

• Swedish: anglosaxisk (sv)

favouring a liberal free market economy

• Hungarian: angolszász (hu)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: англо̀саскӣ

  Roman: anglòsaskī (sh)

descended from white English or North European settlers

• Irish: Angla-Shacsanach
• Macedonian: англосаксонски (anglosaksonski)
• Malay: orang Inggeris Saxon, Inggeris Saxon

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: англо̀саскӣ

  Roman: anglòsaskī (sh)

See also

• Germanic
• Indo-Germanic

Further reading

SIL entry for Anglo-Saxon, ISO 639-3 code ang