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Definition of Anglian
1. Noun. One of the major dialects of Old English.
Definition of Anglian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the Angles.
Definition of Anglian
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Angles (Germanic people) ¹
2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to East Anglia ¹
3. Noun. An Angle (member of a Germanic people) ¹
4. Proper noun. An Old English dialect from Mercia or Northumbria ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anglian
Literary usage of Anglian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arts in Early England by Gerard Baldwin Brown (1915)
"Kempston, Beds, Mid-Anglian, 784 ; orientation, 166; account of it, 192. ...
Lakenheath, Suffolk, E. Anglian, 791 and 795. Leagrave, Beds, W. Saxon, 636. ..."
2. Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle (1884)
"CHAPTER V. THE Anglian PERIOD. WHILE Canterbury was so important a seminary of
learning, there was, in the Anglian region of North- umbria, a development of ..."
3. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"boundary was the Anglian dominion pushed in the first invasion, CHAP, ... As to
the boundary between the two Anglian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira we ..."
4. The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest by Thomas Hodgkin (1906)
"boundary was the Anglian dominion pushed in the first invasion, ... As to the
boundary between the two Anglian kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira we cannot ..."
5. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1863)
"6s., nud the "East Anglian No. 2 Stock " shall amount to 826,8857. 4*. 3.
Every Proprietor of East Anglian Stock at the Time of such Division shall for ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1879)
"THE excellent Glossary of East-Anglian "Words by the Rev. R. Forby is a book well
known to students of English Dialects, being the standard work upon the ..."
7. A Study of British Genius by Havelock Ellis (1904)
"... genius—The East Anglian focus—The apparent poverty of London in aboriginal
genius—The south-western focus—The Welsh Border—The Anglo-Danish district—The ..."
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