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ATHELSTAN
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• ATHELSTAN (noun)
The noun ATHELSTAN has 1 sense:
1. the first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)
Familiarity information: ATHELSTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first Saxon ruler who extended his kingdom to include nearly all of England (895-939)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Saxon (a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman Conquest)
king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)
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