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WEST SAXON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dialect of Middle English
Synonyms:
Southwestern; West Saxon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("West Saxon" is a kind of...):
Middle English (English from about 1100 to 1450)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A literary dialect of Old English
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("West Saxon" is a kind of...):
Anglo-Saxon; Old English (English prior to about 1100)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An inhabitant of Wessex
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("West Saxon" is a kind of...):
Saxon (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)
