SARACEN

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• SARACEN (noun)
  The noun SARACEN has 3 senses:

1. (historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire

2. (when used broadly) any Arab

3. (historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades

  Familiarity information: SARACEN used as a noun is uncommon.

• SARACEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(historically) a member of the nomadic people of the Syrian and Arabian deserts at the time of the Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Saracen" is a kind of...):

nomad (a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons)

Domain category:

history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(when used broadly) any Arab

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Saracen" is a kind of...):

Arab; Arabian (a member of a Semitic people originally from the Arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks Arabic and who inhabits much of the Middle East and northern Africa)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(historically) a Muslim who opposed the Crusades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Saracen" is a kind of...):

Moslem; Muslim (a believer in or follower of Islam)

Domain category:

history (the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings)

 Context examples 

In the north the Saracen's head of the Brocas and the scarlet fish of the De Roches were waving over a strong body of archers from Holt, Woolmer, and Harewood forests.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Miss Betsey, looking round the room, slowly and inquiringly, began on the other side, and carried her eyes on, like a Saracen's Head in a Dutch clock, until they reached my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“There is the Saracen's head of Sir Bernard Brocas,” quoth he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)