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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a late Iron Age Celtic civilization dating from the fifth to the first century BC, influenced by contact with Mediterranean civilizations and flourishing throughout most of Europe north of the Alps until the Roman conquests.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After La Tène, a district at the eastern end of the Lake of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.]

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