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Celtic

[kel-tik, sel-]

noun

a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Irish, Scots gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, which survive now in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, and Brittany. Abbreviation: Celt

adjective

of the Celts or their languages.

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Also, Keltic.

Origin:
1600–10; < Latin Celticus, equivalent to Celt(ae) the Celts (see Celt) + -icus -ic

Related forms

Celt·i·cal·ly, adverb

non-Celt·ic, adjective

pre-Celt·ic, adjective

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Germany will decline to save this celtic tiger from its death spiral.

Celtic legend speaks of selkies, seals that shed their pelts and walk ashore as humans.

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World English Dictionary

Celtic or Keltic (ˈkɛltɪk, ˈsɛl-)

—n
1.	a branch of the Indo-European family of languages that includes Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, still spoken in parts of Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and Brittany. Modern Celtic is divided into the Brythonic (southern) and Goidelic (northern) groups

—*adj*
2.	of, relating to, or characteristic of the Celts or the Celtic languages

Keltic or Keltic

—n

—*adj*

'Celtically or Keltic

—*adv*

'Keltically or Keltic

—*adv*

Celticism or Keltic

—n

'Kelticism or Keltic

—n

'Celticist or Keltic

—n

'Celtist or Keltic

—n

'Kelticist or Keltic

—n

'Keltist or Keltic

—n

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Word Origin & History

Celtic

1656, of archaeology or history, from Fr. Celtique or L. Celticus "pertaining to the Celts (see Celt). Of languages, from 1707; of other qualities, 19c. Celtic twilight is from Yeats's name for his collection of adapted Irish folk tales (1893).

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"An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them."

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