Anglo-Saxon Definition

Anglo-Saxon
noun

1. A member of any of the Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Jutes and the Saxons, who settled in England in the 5c and formed the heptarchy of Essex, Wessex, Sussex, Kent, East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria.
2. The English language before about 1150. Also called Old English.
3. English as thought of in terms of its plain, usually monosyllabic, words including most of the taboo ones.
4. Any English-speaking White person, usually one of Germanic descent.

adj

1a. Belonging or relating to the Germanic peoples who settled in England;
1b. Belonging or relating to the early form of the English language.
2. Said of any English speech or writing: blunt and to the point; tending to avoid longer polysyllabic words.
3. Belonging or relating to the shared cultural, legal, political, etc aspects of British and American life.

Example: traditional Anglo-Saxon values

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon, as plural noun Angulseaxan; 8c Latin Angli Saxones.