Saxony

Definition: Saxony

Saxony

Noun

1. An area in Germany around the upper Elbe river.

Date "Saxony" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Saxony \Sax"o*ny\, noun. [So named after the kingdom of Saxony, reputed to produce fine wool.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Saxony

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Carded, fine, fancy, merino wool cloth. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Saxony

Synonyms: Sachsen (n), Saxe (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Saxony

English words defined with "Saxony": Archmarshal ♦ Crimpy ♦ Dresden ware ♦ Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale ♦ Lower Saxony ♦ Magdeburg, Moravian. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Saxony": Albertazzo ♦ Borna Disease Virus ♦ chrismatite ♦ Flowers and Trees ♦ horn coal ♦ mala metallorum ♦ Saxon Duke, saxony fantasia, Saxony wools, Stassfurt deposits ♦ ultrabasite ♦ V. D. M. I. A. E. (references)

Etymologies containing "Saxony": Pucherite. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Saxony

Domain	Title
Books	Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in World War I and the Men Who Earned Them: The Aviation Awards of the Kingdom of Saxony (reference) Napoleon's German Allies (3) : Saxony (Men at Arms Series, 90) (reference) Nazism in Central Germany: The Brownshirts in 'Red' Saxony (Monographs in German History, Vol 4) (reference) Revolution from the Right: Politics, Class, and the Rise of Nazism in Saxony, 1919-1933 (Studies in Central European Histories) (reference) Saxony in German History: Culture, Society, and Politics, 1830-1933 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) (reference) (more book examples)
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Image Slideshow: Saxony

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Photo Album: Saxony

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ilsenburg, Saxony, Germany.Credit: Library of Congress.		Ballenstedt, Saxony, Germany.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Saxony

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He put a little Saxony figure on the mantel, holding a muff over her naked belly.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Saxony

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Germany	However, in October 2000, the Administrative Court in Lueneburg, Lower Saxony, ruled in favor of a Muslim teacher who had been refused permanent employment for wearing a headscarf in the classroom. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Saxony

"Saxony" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.95% of the time. "Saxony" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	78.95%	30	63,341
Noun (proper)	21.05%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	38	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Saxony

Expressions using "Saxony": lower Saxony ♦ saxony fantasia ♦ Saxony wools ♦ saxony yarn. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Saxony": Saxony-anhalt.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Saxony

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
saxony	56
lower saxony	9
apartment saxony	8
saxony hotel	8
map saxony	7
saxony carpet	7
germany saxony	7
germany map saxony	3
jordan saxony	3
croscill saxony	3
dresden germany saxony	2
apartment dallas saxony	2
edmonton hotel saxony	2
albert saxony	2
duck saxony	2
furniture house saxony	2
investco.net saxony	2
ancient frithogar saxony	2
saxony anhalt	2
history saxony	2
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Modern Translations: Saxony

Language		Translations for "Saxony"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		stof leshi i lehtë, saksoni. (various references)

Arabic		‏سكسوني. (various references)

Bulgarian		фина прежда, плат от фина прежда. (various references)

Chinese		萨克森. (various references)

Czech		sasko. (various references)

Danish		saxony. (various references)

Dutch		Saksen (Saxe). (various references)

Esperanto		Saksujo (Saxe), Saksio (Saxe). (various references)

French		saxe (Saxe). (various references)

German		Sachsen (Saxe, saxons). (various references)

Greek		σαξωνία. (various references)

Hungarian		szászország. (various references)

Italian		saxony, sassonia. (various references)

Korean		색소니. (various references)

Pig Latin		axonysay

Portuguese		saxony, saxônia. (various references)

Russian		саксония, тонкая шерсть (crewel). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		saksonija, vrsta vunene tkanine. (various references)

Spanish		sajonia (Saxe). (various references)

Swedish		sachsen. (various references)

Turkish		saksonya, ince yün kumaş. (various references)

Ukranian		саксонська вовна, саксонія. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Saxony

Misspellings
	"Saxony" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sarony, Saxene, Saxonica, Saxonis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Saxony"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Saxony" (pronounced sa"ksunē)
4	-s u n ē	larceny.
3	-u n ē	aborigine, accompany, agony, balcony, botany, cacophony, colony, company, destiny, disharmony, ebony, Epiphany, felony, gluttony, harmony, hegemony, hominy, homogeny, intercompany, intracompany, irony, litany, mahogany, misogyny, monotony, mutiny, neoteny, ontogeny, paleobotany, Peony, phylogeny, polygyny, polyphony, progeny, scrutiny, simony, Symphony, Tiffany, tyranny.
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Anagrams: Saxony

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-n-o-s-x-y"
	-1 letter: axons.
	-2 letters: axon, naos, nays, nosy, onyx, soya.
	-3 letters: any, ays, nay, nos, ons, oxy, sax, say, son, sox, soy, syn, yon.
	-4 letters: an, as, ax, ay, na, no, on, os, ox, oy, so, ya, yo.
	Words containing the letters "a-n-o-s-x-y"
	+2 letters: sardonyx.
	+3 letters: anxiously.
	+4 letters: oxygenates, sardonyxes.
	+5 letters: anxiolytics, nasopharynx, oxygenators.
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