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# [[Germanic]] [[peoples]] inhabiting [[mediæval]] [[England]]. # [[Germanic]] [[peoples]] inhabiting [[mediæval]] [[England]].
# ''(US)'' A person of [[British]] or North [[European]] [[descent]]. # ''(US)'' A person of [[British]] or North [[European]] [[descent]].
-# ''(US, Mexican-American)'' A [[light-skinned]] person presumably of British or other European appearance; a [[white]] person.+# ''(US, Mexican-American)'' A [[light-skinned]] person presumably of British or other European appearance; a [[white person]].
====Synonyms==== ====Synonyms====
* [[Old English]] * [[Old English]]

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  1. The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. The language is a more inflected language, maintaining strong and weak verbs, nouns, and adjectives. It has a clearly marked subjunctive mood, and has five cases of nouns and adjectives.
  2. Germanic peoples inhabiting mediæval England.
  3. (US) A person of British or North European descent.
  4. (US, Mexican-American) A light-skinned person presumably of British or other European appearance; a white person.

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Anglo-Saxon is the term usually used to describe the peoples living in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD to the Norman conquest of 1066.



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