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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See cœlia.
  • noun Any one of the ventricles or other cavities of the brain; an encephalic cavity; an encephalocele. Also spelled celia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat.) A cavity.

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  • proper noun A female given name.

Etymologies

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Latin Caelia, feminine of Roman family name Caelius, probably from caelum "heaven", introduced into English by Shakespeare in As You Like It.

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