(n)Saxona 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
(a)Saxonof or relating to or characteristic of the early Saxons or Anglo-Saxons and their descendants (especially the English or Lowland Scots) and their language“Saxon princes”, “for greater clarity choose a plain Saxon term instead of a latinate one”