Anglo-Saxon

  1. Proper noun.  The inflected ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.
  2. Noun.  Germanic peoples inhabiting medieval England.
  3. Noun.  (US) A person of British or North European descent.
  4. Noun.  (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person.
  5. Adjective.  Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
  6. Adjective.  Related to nations which speak primarily English; especially United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia.
  7. Adjective.  (politics) Favouring a liberal free market economy.
  8. Adjective.  (US) Descended from white English or North European settlers.

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