Saxon
A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
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Born ~1860 · 1 year of recorded useSeen in the wild
@yalepress.bsky.social Insular Art ‘Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland.’ #Art #Culture #Heritage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular...
just watched the odyssey trailer and those are some of the whitest, waspiest, most Anglo Saxon looking people they possibly could’ve picked
Well.. Clarence Thomas looks BLACK but acts as a Anglo Saxon anti BLACK and Hispanic
Copșa Mare saxon tower, Transylvania, Romania (Großkopisch, Siebenbürgen, Rumänien) #Transylvania #Romania #CopsaMare
The puppets garner regard and respect because they cost more to create and maintain than human beings. I sometimes wonder if we're reverting to the old Anglo-Saxon legal concept of wergild...
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A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.
“Realeasd today 5th May 1980 "Wheels Of Steel" Reached No 5 UK album charts, #saxon #AlbumOfTheDay #80s”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"The analysis Trump endorsed is that America is defined not by its founding values but by its Anglo-Saxon cultural and genetic heritage." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(uncountable, US, _, printing, rare, dated) A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.
Saxon means: A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than risky behaviour. If your teen uses it, context will usually make the intent clear. A short, curious question about where they heard it is usually all that is needed to know whether to follow up.
Saxon means: A size of type between German and Norse, 2-point type.. Register: dated, informal. A common learner mistake is using the word in a register it does not fit, or assuming a single global meaning; native speakers immediately notice when slang appears in formal contexts, so always check the surrounding register before producing it yourself. A formal-English equivalent (a synonym or descriptive phrase) is usually safer in writing. When in doubt, paraphrase rather than reuse the slang form.
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(Ireland, Wales, poetic) An English/British person.
The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.
“@yalepress.bsky.social Insular Art ‘Insular art, also known as Hiberno-Saxon art, was produced in the post-Roman era of Great Britain and Ireland.’ #Art #Culture #Heritage en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“just watched the odyssey trailer and those are some of the whitest, waspiest, most Anglo Saxon looking people they possibly could’ve picked”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Well.. Clarence Thomas looks BLACK but acts as a Anglo Saxon anti BLACK and Hispanic”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Copșa Mare saxon tower, Transylvania, Romania (Großkopisch, Siebenbürgen, Rumänien) #Transylvania #Romania #CopsaMare”
— Bluesky· May 2026“The puppets garner regard and respect because they cost more to create and maintain than human beings. I sometimes wonder if we're reverting to the old Anglo-Saxon legal concept of wergild...”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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