Old English

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口語 非標準 禁用 歴史的 アイルランド英語

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

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When I read Beowulf in the original Old English, I felt connected to a distant past of warriors and poets.

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意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(nonstandard, colloquial, proscribed) Archaic English (Early Modern English) or Middle English speech or writing, or an imitation of this: "old" English.

Those who claim that they've been reading Shakespeare in Old English betray their ignorance: they haven't.

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(typography, historical) The form of black letter used by 16th-century English printers.

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(Ireland, history) A historical ethnic group in Ireland descended from Norman invaders from Britain from the 12th century to the 17th century.