Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of an Indo-European people originally of central Europe and spreading to western Europe, the British Isles, and southeast to Galatia during pre-Roman times, especially a Briton or Gaul.
- noun A native speaker of a modern Celtic language or a descendant of such a speaker, especially a modern Gael, Welsh person, Cornish person, or Breton.
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- proper noun the ancient peoples of Western Europe, called by the Romans Celtæ
- proper noun the modern speakers of Celtic languages
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today, the term Celt is applied to a speaker of a Celtic language.
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And while the Celt is talking from Valencia to Kirkwall The English, ah!
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The Celt is supposed to be spiritually superior to the Saxonsimpler, more creative, less vulgar, less snobbish, etc. but the usual power hunger is there under the surface.
Notes on Nationalism 1945
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This book belongs, like all Ethna Carbery's works, to the new and nobler utterance the Celt is finding in English literature ......
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Although the name Celt was given by the early Greeks to all the people living West of their country, the Romans included under that name only the tribes occupying the countries now known as France, Western
The Book of the Epic 1894
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The word Celt was used to describe both the whole family (including
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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The light-heartedness of the Celt is another feature which strikes the least observant stranger.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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The light-heartedness of the Celt is another feature which strikes the least observant stranger.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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For the mystery of the Celt is the mystery of Amergin the
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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Sir William Butler said, "the Celt is the spearhead of the British lance."
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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