angles
n. countablen. a group of people from northern Germany who moved to Britain a long time ago. They helped form the English language and the country of England.
n. a member of a Germanic people from Schleswig who settled in eastern and northern England in the 5th and 6th centuries. Along with the Saxons and Jutes, they are the primary ancestors of the modern English people.
The Angles settled in the eastern parts of Britain.
Historians study how the Angles and Saxons eventually merged to form a single cultural identity in early England.
The migration of the Angles across the North Sea fundamentally reshaped the linguistic landscape of the British Isles, providing the etymological root for the very name of the English language.
Usually pluralized when referring to the ethnic group; often paired with 'Saxons' in the compound term 'Anglo-Saxon'.