Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun west_saxon

3 senses of west saxon

Sense 1
West Saxon -- (an inhabitant of Wessex)
       => Saxon -- (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest)

Sense 2
West Saxon -- (a literary dialect of Old English)
       => Old English, Anglo-Saxon -- (English prior to about 1100)

Sense 3
Southwestern, West Saxon -- (a dialect of Middle English)
       => Middle English -- (English from about 1100 to 1450)