Definitions for old english
old eng·lish

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Old English, Anglo-Saxonnoun

   English prior to about 1100

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1. Old Englishnoun

   The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.

2. Old Englishnoun

   Archaic English speech or writing, or an imitation of this.

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1. old english

   Old English is a historical form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. It is the earliest form of the English language and is also known as Anglo-Saxon. It was heavily influenced by the Old Norse language and had a complex grammar and vocabulary. By the 12th century, Old English developed into Middle English, which eventually evolved into Modern English.

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1. Old English

   The Old English were the descendants of the settlers who came to Ireland from Wales, Normandy, and England after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169–71. The term is generally used by scholars for residents of The Pale and Irish towns after the mid-16th century, who became increasingly opposed to the Protestant New English who arrived in Ireland after the Tudor conquest of Ireland in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many of the Old English were dispossessed in the political and religious conflicts of the 16th and 17th centuries, largely due to their continued adherence to the Roman Catholic religion. As a result the distinction between Old English and Native Irish largely disappeared by 1700, as they were both equally barred from positions of wealth and power by the so-called New English settlers, who became known as the Protestant Ascendancy. The earliest known reference to the term 'Old English' is in the 1580s The community of Norman descent prior to then used numerous epithets to describe themselves, but it was only as a result of the political cess crisis of the 1580s that a group identifying itself as the Old English community actually emerged.

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How to pronounce old english?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of old english in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of old english in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of old english in a Sentence

1. Karl Marx:

   The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=old english
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Old_English
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=old english