West Saxon
the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
any of the English of the period before the Norman Conquest who lived in the region south of the Thames and west of Surrey and Sussex.
a person whose native tongue was West Saxon.
of or relating to the West Saxons or their dialect.
Origin of West Saxon
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How to use West Saxon in a sentence
The West Saxon shilling seems originally to have been identical with the Mercian, but later it contained five pence.
Hence we have in some quite early (not West Saxon) pedigrees, five names given as ancestors of Woden.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersBesides, there is the strongest external support for Woden in the very place which he occupies in the West-Saxon pedigree.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersThey are pre-literary, and were doubtless chanted by retainers of the West-Saxon kings in heathen days.
Beowulf | R. W. ChambersThe division of the West Saxon see was put off until the death of the bishop.
The English Church in the Middle Ages | William Hunt
British Dictionary definitions for West Saxon
/ (in Anglo-Saxon England) /
of or relating to Wessex, its inhabitants, or their dialect
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