Wessexn.

Brit.

/ˈwɛsɪks/, U.S.

/ˈwɛsəks/

Etymology: Old English West Seaxe West Saxons (see West Saxon n. and adj.).

1. The name of a kingdom in south-west England in Anglo-Saxon times, used by Thomas Hardy as the name of the county in which his stories are set (corresponding approximately to Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire) and since used as a name for south-west England or this part of it.

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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England

wealdOE

Oxon.c1439

the Stannaries1455

Midland1555

Home Counties1695

Islandshire1705

lakes1774

file1775

potteries1795

the Shires1796

Tyneside1824

lakeland1829

Lake District1835

lake country1842

Wessex1868

Shakespeare country1900

Geordieland1901

cherry country1902

1868 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life Pref. As I think that some people, beyond the bounds of Wessex, would allow me the pleasure of believing that they have deemed..my homely poems in our Dorset mother-speech to be worthy of their reading, I have written a few of a like kind, in common English.

1874 Hardy in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 624 Greenhill was the Nijnii Novgorod of Wessex; and the busiest..day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep-fair.

1876 Examiner 15 July 794/1 The Wessex man knows that these passages have in them the real ring, all equally true to life and scenery.

1938 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 4 52 The work..was..undertaken with a view to examining the cultures of the geographical area usually comprised in the term ‘Wessex’ in the period immediately following the Beaker phase.

1979 Notes & Queries June 193/2 All [volumes] share a chronology of the life and works, Hardy's General Preface to the Wessex Edition, and notes on Wessex and Wessex names.

2. attributive. = saddleback n. 13.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of specific breed

Yorkshire1770

Cumberland1811

Neapolitan1847

Wessex1919

1919 (title) The Wessex Saddleback Pig Society's herd book.

1919 T. Hardy Let. 7 Nov. in One Rare Fair Woman (1972) 187 I am a strange member of the Wessex Pig Society. I accepted the nomination entirely in the hope of helping to popularize the ‘killer’.

1978 A. Williams Backyard Pig Farming iv. 27 There used to be a Wessex Saddleback originating in Dorset; it had black back legs.

3. Archaeology. Of, pertaining to, or designating an Early Bronze Age culture in southern England, c2000–1500 b.c., represented by grave-goods of native and European provenance.

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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Bronze Age

Aegean1890

Helladic1919

Aunjetitz1924

Lausitz1928

Apennine1932

Wessex1938

Únětice1947

Únětician1947

Eblaite1976

1938 S. Piggott in Proc. Prehistoric Soc. IV. 52 Many elements..here described as typical of the Wessex Culture of the Bronze Age are..found in associations which are late and outside the main culture-area.

1954 Antiquity Mar. 28 The axes..of this broad-butted type,..characteristic..of Piggott's Wessex Culture.

1963 E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. i. iv. 64 The Wessex nobility seem to have come from Germany.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Mar. 282/1 The unlikelihood of Mycenaean influence on Stonehenge and the ‘Wessex culture’ of southern England.

1983 P. A. Crowl Prehist. Britain i. 33 The Wessex urns..lacking the refinement one would have expected of this..culture.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wessex
释义	Wessexn. Brit. /ˈwɛsɪks/, U.S. /ˈwɛsəks/ Etymology: Old English West Seaxe West Saxons (see West Saxon n. and adj.). 1. The name of a kingdom in south-west England in Anglo-Saxon times, used by Thomas Hardy as the name of the county in which his stories are set (corresponding approximately to Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, and Wiltshire) and since used as a name for south-west England or this part of it. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > England > [noun] > districts of England wealdOE Oxon.c1439 the Stannaries1455 Midland1555 Home Counties1695 Islandshire1705 lakes1774 file1775 potteries1795 the Shires1796 Tyneside1824 lakeland1829 Lake District1835 lake country1842 Wessex1868 Shakespeare country1900 Geordieland1901 cherry country1902 1868 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life Pref. As I think that some people, beyond the bounds of Wessex, would allow me the pleasure of believing that they have deemed..my homely poems in our Dorset mother-speech to be worthy of their reading, I have written a few of a like kind, in common English. 1874 Hardy in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 624 Greenhill was the Nijnii Novgorod of Wessex; and the busiest..day of the whole statute number was the day of the sheep-fair. 1876 Examiner 15 July 794/1 The Wessex man knows that these passages have in them the real ring, all equally true to life and scenery. 1938 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 4 52 The work..was..undertaken with a view to examining the cultures of the geographical area usually comprised in the term ‘Wessex’ in the period immediately following the Beaker phase. 1979 Notes & Queries June 193/2 All [volumes] share a chronology of the life and works, Hardy's General Preface to the Wessex Edition, and notes on Wessex and Wessex names. 2. attributive. = saddleback n. 13. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [adjective] > of specific breed Yorkshire1770 Cumberland1811 Neapolitan1847 Wessex1919 1919 (title) The Wessex Saddleback Pig Society's herd book. 1919 T. Hardy Let. 7 Nov. in One Rare Fair Woman (1972) 187 I am a strange member of the Wessex Pig Society. I accepted the nomination entirely in the hope of helping to popularize the ‘killer’. 1978 A. Williams Backyard Pig Farming iv. 27 There used to be a Wessex Saddleback originating in Dorset; it had black back legs. 3. Archaeology. Of, pertaining to, or designating an Early Bronze Age culture in southern England, c2000–1500 b.c., represented by grave-goods of native and European provenance. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific Bronze Age Aegean1890 Helladic1919 Aunjetitz1924 Lausitz1928 Apennine1932 Wessex1938 Únětice1947 Únětician1947 Eblaite1976 1938 S. Piggott in Proc. Prehistoric Soc. IV. 52 Many elements..here described as typical of the Wessex Culture of the Bronze Age are..found in associations which are late and outside the main culture-area. 1954 Antiquity Mar. 28 The axes..of this broad-butted type,..characteristic..of Piggott's Wessex Culture. 1963 E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. i. iv. 64 The Wessex nobility seem to have come from Germany. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Mar. 282/1 The unlikelihood of Mycenaean influence on Stonehenge and the ‘Wessex culture’ of southern England. 1983 P. A. Crowl Prehist. Britain i. 33 The Wessex urns..lacking the refinement one would have expected of this..culture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1868
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