sax

¹

[ saks ]

noun

, Informal.

1. saxophone.

sax

²

[ saks ]

noun

1. a short, single-edged sword of ancient Scandinavia.

Sax.

³

abbreviation for

1. Saxon.
2. Saxony.

sax

¹

/ sæks /

noun

1. informal.
   short for saxophone

sax

²

/ sæks /

noun

1. a tool resembling a small axe, used for cutting roofing slate

Word History and Origins

Origin of sax¹

By shortening

Origin of sax²

before 900; Middle English sexe, Old English seax, sæx; cognate with Old Norse sax ( Swedish, Danish sax scissors). See saw ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of sax¹

Old English seax knife; related to Old Saxon sahs, Old Norse sax

Example Sentences

The sax player himself is the film’s main interviewee, but he’s flanked by music critics who point out all his shortcomings.

From Vox

“When you’re walking your dog, you’re going for a run or you’re on a bicycle, these are really not risky situations for either you or the people who you might transiently pass,” Sax says.

From Washington Post

Although he and Hillary Clinton appeared reasonably at ease moving to songs such as “It Had to Be You,” the president was most in his element holding a sax.

From Washington Post

“People want to know that you are who you say you are, and that you can do what you say you can do,” said Sax.

From Digiday

Three days after that, the author of the original Rollins piece published a defense of his skewering of the sax icon.

From The Daily Beast

Here the sax legend offered observations “in his own words” on his life and times.

From The Daily Beast

When Cosby looked up, he saw that Sonny Stitt, the famed alto sax player, had joined the bandstand.

From The Daily Beast

Like some sinuous sax, we first hear the thoughts of Obersturmfuhrer Angelus (Golo) Thomsen.

From The Daily Beast

And much of his most inspired playing, in his final years, came in the context of sax-drum duets.

From The Daily Beast

I've seen five lairds o' Pettybaw, sax placed meenisters, an' seeven doctors.

From Project Gutenberg

Terrible was the clang of the strong sword Ecke-sax on the helmets of the Nibelungs.

From Project Gutenberg

He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o' bend-leather into the king's heel.

From Project Gutenberg

Troth, I am no the same man noo that I was sax-and-forty years agane, and sorry I am to say it.

From Project Gutenberg

Where will ye find the Small Scotch that's fu' sax inches in height?

From Project Gutenberg