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

1 sense of athelstan

Sense 1
Athelstan -- (the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939))
       INSTANCE OF=> king, male monarch, Rex -- (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
       INSTANCE OF=> 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)