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sax

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
10
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/sæks/

Definition of sax

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of zax.
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noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of zax.
  2. (obsolete)A knife or sword; a dagger about 50 cm (20 inches) in length.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping)Clipping of saxophone.
  4. a shade of colour similar to sky blue

verb

  1. (British, dialectal, transitive)To cut or slash with a sharp instrument; incise; scarify.
  2. To play the saxophone

name

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Simple API for XML.
  2. A surname.

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Etymology

From Middle English sax, sex, from Old English seax (“a knife, hip-knife, an instrument for cutting, a short sword, dirk, dagger”), from Proto-West Germanic *sahs, from Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“stone chip, knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of seax and zax.

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