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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
English prior to about 1100
Synonyms:
Anglo-Saxon; Old English
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Old English" is a kind of...):
English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old English"):
West Saxon (a literary dialect of Old English)
Anglian; Jutish; Kentish (one of the major dialects of Old English)
