Definition of: Saxon

(sak′sən) noun
1. A member of a Germanic tribal group living in the southern part of what is now Schleswig-Holstein in the early centuries of the Christian era.
2. A member of any of the offshoots of this group, as those who, with the Angles and Jutes, invaded England in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.
3. An Anglo-Saxon.
4. An inhabitant of Saxony.
5. The modern High German dialect of Saxony.
6. A Teuton.
—Old Saxon The dialect of Low German current in the valley of the lower Elbe in the early Middle Ages.
—adjective
1. Of or pertaining to the Saxons, or to their language.
2. Germanic; Anglo-Saxon; also, English: said of words, phrases, etc. [<F <L Saxo, Saxonis <WGmc.]