anglo-saxon
/ˌænɡloʊˈsæksən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.38 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
American usage
adj
Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
adj
Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
Example Sentences
- "Sometimes these chairmen are authoritarians, who wield the budget-book as a weapon - the junior staff members have some Anglo-Saxon words for them"
- "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."
- "How fucked up is that? (Pardon my Anglo-Saxon)"
- "[...] 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."
Etymology
From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Anglī Saxōnēs (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons. Displaced native Old English Angelseaxan.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌænɡloʊˈsæksən/
- British English: /ˌæŋɡləʊˈsæksən/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Anglosaxon (alternative, rare)
AS (alternative, initialism)
Anglo-Saxons (plural)
more Anglo-Saxon (comparative)
most Anglo-Saxon (superlative)