west saxon

English Thesaurus

1. a dialect of Middle English (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	middle english,
definition	:	English from about 1100 to 1450 (noun.communication)

2. a literary dialect of Old English (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	anglo-saxon, old english,
definition	:	English prior to about 1100 (noun.communication)

3. an inhabitant of Wessex (noun.person)

hypernym	:	saxon,
definition	:	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 (noun.person)