Anglo-Saxon
    adj 1: of or relating to the Anglo-Saxons or their language;
           "Anglo-Saxon poetry"; "The Anglo-Saxon population of
           Scotland"
    n 1: a native or inhabitant of England prior to the Norman
         Conquest
    2: a person of Anglo-Saxon (especially British) descent whose
       native tongue is English and whose culture is strongly
       influenced by English culture as in WASP for `White Anglo-
       Saxon Protestant'; "in the ninth century the Vikings began
       raiding the Anglo-Saxons in Britain"; "his ancestors were not
       just British, they were Anglo-Saxons"
    3: English prior to about 1100 [syn: Old English, Anglo-
       Saxon]

German \Ger"man\, n.; pl. Germans[L. Germanus, prob. of Celtis
   origin.]
   1. A native or one of the people of Germany.
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   2. The German language.
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   3.
      (a) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding
          in capriciosly involved figures.
      (b) A social party at which the german is danced.
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   High German, the Teutonic dialect of Upper or Southern
      Germany, -- comprising Old High German, used from the 8th
      to the 11th century; Middle H. G., from the 12th to the
      15th century; and Modern or New H. G., the language of
      Luther's Bible version and of modern German literature.
      The dialects of Central Germany, the basis of the modern
      literary language, are often called Middle German, and the
      Southern German dialects Upper German; but High German is
      also used to cover both groups.

   Low German, the language of Northern Germany and the
      Netherlands, -- including Friesic; Anglo-Saxon or
      Saxon; Old Saxon; Dutch or Low Dutch, with its
      dialect, Flemish; and Plattdeutsch (called also Low
      German), spoken in many dialects.
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Anglo-Saxon \An"glo-Sax"on\ adj.
   1. of or pertaining to the Anglo-Saxons or their language;
      as, Anglo-Saxon poetry; The Anglo-Saxon population of
      Scotland.
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Anglo-Saxon \An"glo-Sax"on\, n. [L. Angli-Saxones English
   Saxons.]
   1. A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the
      Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a
      continental (or "Old") Saxon.
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   2. pl. The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of
      England, or the English people, collectively, before the
      Norman Conquest.
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            It is quite correct to call [AE]thelstan "King of
            the Anglo-Saxons," but to call this or that subject
            of [AE]thelstan "an Anglo-Saxon" is simply nonsense.
                                                  --E. A.
                                                  Freeman.
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   3. The language of the English people before the Norman
      conquest in 1066 (sometimes called Old English). See
      Saxon.

   Syn: Old English
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   4. One of the race or people who claim descent from the
      Saxons, Angles, or other Teutonic tribes who settled in
      England; a person of English descent in its broadest
      sense.
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   5. a person of Anglo-Saxon (esp British) descent whose native
      tongue is English and whose culture is strongly influenced
      by English culture as in "WASP for `White Anglo-Saxon
      Protestant'"; "this Anglo-Saxon view of things".
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