Something that is Saxon is related to or characteristic of the ancient Saxons, the Anglo-Saxons, or their descendants. a seventh-century Saxon church. a member of the race of people from northern Europe that came to live in England in the 5th century (Saxones ). Any member of a Germanic people who lived along the Baltic coast in ancient times and later migrated west as far as the British Isles. The Saxons became pirates in the North Sea during the decline of the Roman empire, and in the early 5th century they spread through northern Germany and along the coasts of Gaul and Britain. They fought Charlemagne (772-804) before being incorporated into the Frankish kingdom, and they settled Britain along with other Germanic invaders, including the Angles and the Jutes. Anglo Saxon art Anglo Saxon law Anglo Saxon literature Hiberno Saxon style Anglo Saxon
{i} member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain; Old English dialect used in areas settled by the Saxons; Englishman, British man; person of Anglo-Saxon descent
{s} English, British; of Anglo-Saxon descent; pertaining to the Saxons, pertaining to the ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain
Saxon is a competitor of Xalan, an XSLT processor According to Norm Walsh, the DocBook king, Saxon seems to do a slightly better job of transforming DocBook XML than Xalan In Out-of-the-Box development, we generally use Saxon for DocBook transformation and Xalan in our Java code
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
One of a nation or people who formerly dwelt in the northern part of Germany, and who, with other Teutonic tribes, invaded and conquered England in the fifth and sixth centuries
of or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendents (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language; "Saxon princes"; "for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one"