Definitions for old english
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
Old′ Eng′lish(n.)
the English language before c1150.
Category: Peoples
Ref: Abbr.: OE 2
Print. a style of black letter.
Category: Printing
Princeton's WordNet
Old English, Anglo-Saxon(noun)
English prior to about 1100
Wiktionary
Old English(ProperNoun)
The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
Old English(ProperNoun)
Archaic English speech or writing, or an imitation of this.
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