Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the Gaels or their culture or languages.
- noun Goidelic.
- noun Any of the Goidelic languages, especially.
- noun Irish.
- noun Scottish Gaelic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Gaels, a Celtic race inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland: as, the Gaelic language.
- noun The language of the Celts inhabiting the Highlands of Scotland. See
Gadhelic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland.
- noun The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun
Goidelic ; anyGoidelic language. - proper noun
Scottish Gaelic . - adjective Of or relating to the
Gaels , theCeltic peoples ofScotland ,Ireland , and theManx , or their languages.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or characteristic of the Celts
- noun any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'd love to check out MacBeth, considering we sort of have the same name: MacVay in Gaelic is MacBheatha, same as his name (though his was a given name, not a patronymic, and we aren't related).
Celebrating Scotland Sharon Bakar 2005
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Apparently King Balor's lines are all in "Gaelic", which presumably means Irish; would be interested to know what any gaelgeori thought of this.
Linkspam for 10-6-2009 nwhyte 2009
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Imagine, I've become the porridge princess- I can bewitch the oats and water into a pottage that makes the young men laugh and old men cease their laughter- me, an incomer, with not a word of Gaelic and a name that's not an island name, aye, right enough, and laundry on the line on Sunday- do you know my secret?
Hebrides Carol Reid 2011
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Thinking of Australia (and narrowing from gender-neutral) might be worth noting that the equivalent obscenity in Gaelic - Highland, at least - is just not that obscene.
On Profanity: 3 Hal Duncan 2009
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The group is made up of 1 Slovene, 1 Hungarian, 1 Scot who writes in Gaelic, and 2 Russians (plus me, for my poems written originally in Spanish and translating the others into Spanish).
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008
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Last time I was there, peak-time viewing was a programme in Gaelic about a poet who emigrated to Canada and then died.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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Last time I was there, peak-time viewing was a programme in Gaelic about a poet who emigrated to Canada and then died.
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With out wanting to be pedantic "Celtic" isn't actually the language its called Gaelic yeah gay-lick .
/Filmcast Ep. 62 - G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra (GUEST: Matt Singer from IFC News) | /Film 2009
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That said, there's an awful lot of rubbish as well, but would 'Dancing on Ice' and Big Brother 'be any worse if they were in Gaelic?
Skye No More Jeff 2007
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That said, there's an awful lot of rubbish as well, but would 'Dancing on Ice' and Big Brother 'be any worse if they were in Gaelic?
Skye No More Jeff 2007
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