Definition of Anglo-saxon deity

1. Noun. (Anglo-Saxon mythology) a deity worshipped by the Anglo-Saxons.

Category relationships: Mythology, Anglo-saxon
Generic synonyms: Deity, Divinity, God, Immortal
Specialized synonyms: Tiu, Wodan, Woden
Specialized synonyms: Weird, Wyrd

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anglo-saxon Deity

Anglo-Americans
Anglo-Catholic
Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Catholics
Anglo-Celtic Isles
Anglo-French
Anglo-Frisian
Anglo-Indian
Anglo-Indians
Anglo-Jewish
Anglo-Latin
Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Normans
Anglo-Saxon
Anglo-Saxon America
Anglo-Saxon deity
Anglo-Saxondom
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-catholic
Anglocentric
Anglocentrically
Anglocentrism
Anglodom
Anglomania
Anglomaniac
Anglomaniacs
Anglomanias
Anglophile
Anglophiles
Anglophilia

Literary usage of Anglo-saxon deity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Words and Places: Or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and by Isaac Taylor (1873)
"... suffix, 106 woda, 330 wold, 91, 329 Woden, Anglo-Saxon deity, his great popularity, evinced by local names, 218 Wolf, The, places in England named from, ..."

2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"One of their four great roads was called Ermine Street— ori as it is also written, Ermen, from the Anglo-Saxon deity ..."

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