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saxon

Saxon (plural Saxons)

1. A member of an ancient northern Germanic tribe that invaded England, together with Angles and Frisians, about the year 600.
2. A native or inhabitant of Saxony.
   • 2002, Jonathan Grix, Paul Cooke, East German distinctiveness in a unified Germany, page 142:

     [...] in West Germany Saxony and Saxons became synonymous with Ulbrichts Communist regime, [...]

   • 2005, Judd Stitziel, Fashioning socialism: clothing, politics, and consumer culture, page 69:

     The film taught that socialist competition, through encouraging the collaboration of both men and women and Saxons and Berliners, could overcome the natural antagonism between male industrial mass production and female fashion.

   • 2008, Eckbert Schulz-Schomburgk, From Leipzig to Venezuela, page 40:

     Dealing with people there was different from the way I dealt with Saxons, Berliners and others back in Leipzig.

Saxon (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the Saxons.
2. Of or relating to Saxony.
3. Of or relating to the Saxon language.