Old English (original) (raw)

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English prior to about 1100

Synonyms:

Anglo-Saxon; Old English

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Old English" is a kind of...):

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Old English"):

West Saxon (a literary dialect of Old English)

Anglian; Jutish; Kentish (one of the major dialects of Old English)

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