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1. (n.) Wessex
an ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom, later an earldom, in S England.
2. Wessex
the fictional setting of the novels of Thomas Hardy, principally identifiable with Dorsetshire.
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1. (noun) Wessex
a Saxon kingdom in southwestern England that became the most powerful English kingdom by the 10th century
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1. Wessex
a territory in the SW. of England, inhabited by Saxons who landed at Southampton in 514, known as the West Saxons, and who gradually extended their dominion over territory beyond it till, under Egbert, their king, they became supreme over the other kingdoms of the Heptarchy.
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