Anglo-Saxons
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| - | # 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 [[case]]s of nouns and adjectives. | + | # The ancestor [[language]] of modern [[English]], also called '''[[Old English]]''', spoken in [[Britain]] from about 400 AD to 1100 AD. |
| # [[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]]. | ||
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- The ancestor language of modern English, also called Old English, spoken in Britain from about 400 AD to 1100 AD.
- Germanic peoples inhabiting mediæval England.
- (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.
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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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