Old English

专有名词

英文释义

专有名词
  1. The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
  2. Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English. colloquial,nonstandard,proscribed
    — Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.
  3. The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers. historical
  4. A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century. Ireland
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