West-saxon


noun
1.
the Old English dialect of the West Saxon kingdom, dominant after a.d. c850 and the medium of nearly all the literary remains of Old English.
2.
any 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.
3.
a person whose native tongue was West Saxon.
adjective
4.
of or relating to the West Saxons or their dialect.
adjective
1.
of or relating to Wessex, its inhabitants, or their dialect
noun
2.
the dialect of Old English spoken in Wessex: the chief literary dialect of Old English See also Anglian, Kentish
3.
an inhabitant of Wessex

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