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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024West′ Sax′on, - Language Varietiesthe Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant aftera.d.c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
- Language Varieties, Ancient Historyany of the English of the period before the Norman Conquest who lived in the region south of the Thames and west of Surrey and Sussex.
- Language Varieties, Ancient Historya person whose native tongue was West Saxon.
- Ancient History, Language Varietiesof or pertaining to the West Saxons or their dialect.
- 1350–1400; Middle English, for Old English Westseaxan Wessex; see west, Saxon
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