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单词 Saxon Shore
释义

Saxon /sakˈsən/

noun
  1. A member of a N German people that conquered most of Britain in the 5c and 6c (including or excluding the Angles and Jutes)
  2. The language of that people on the Continent (Old Saxon) or in Britain (Anglo-Saxon, Old English)
  3. An English or lowland Scots person
  4. Someone whose native language is English
  5. The English language
  6. A native, inhabitant, or citizen of Saxony in the later German sense (now in S Germany)
adjective

Relating to the Saxons in any sense, their language, culture, or architecture

ORIGIN: L Saxonēs (pl); of Ger origin; cf OE Seaxe; Ger Sachsen; perh connected with OE sæx (WSax seax), OHGer sahs knife, short sword

Saxˈondom noun

The Anglo-Saxon or English-speaking world

Saxonian /saks-ōˈni-ən/ noun (geology)

A division of the Permian system in W Europe

Saxonic /-onˈik/ adjective

Saxˈonism noun

  1. A Saxon or English idiom
  2. A preference for native English words, institutions, etc

Saxˈonist noun

A scholar in Old English

Saxˈonize or Saxˈonise transitive verb and intransitive verb

To make or become Saxon

saxˈony noun

A soft woollen yarn or cloth

Saxon architecture noun

A style of building in England before the Norman Conquest, marked by the peculiar ‘long and short’ work of the quoins, projecting fillets running up the face of the walls and interlacing like woodwork, and baluster-like shafts between the openings of the upper windows resembling the turned woodwork of the period

Saxon blue or Saxony blue noun

A dye produced by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid

Saxon Shore noun

(L Litus Saxonicum) in Roman times, the coast districts from Brighton to the Wash, peculiarly exposed to the attacks of the Saxons, or perhaps already partly settled by them, and so placed under the authority of a special officer, the ‘Count of the Saxon Shore’

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