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celt (selt)

noun

a prehistoric tool of stone or metal, resembling a chisel or ax head

Etymology: < ML celtis < LL *celtis < Vulg. vel celte sculpantur in silice (Job 19:24); prob. ghost word (certe in other mss.) adopted as genuine by archaeologists

Celt¹ Definition

Celt (kelt; also selt)

noun

  1. a person who speaks a Celtic language or a descendant of such a person: the Bretons, Irish, Welsh, and Highland Scots are Celts
  2. a member of an ancient people in central and W Europe, reputedly including the Gauls and Britons

Etymology: Fr Celte, orig., Breton < L Celta, pl. Celtae (Gr Keltoi), the Gauls

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Celtic

celt Usage Examples

Noun used with modifier

  • bronze: They were got where bronze celts and other remains of a remote antiquity have been found.
  • stone: The earliest bronze axes are very like stone celts in form.
Celt Quotes

Not the schoolboy heat, The blind hysterics of the Celt.

—Tennyson

Browse dictionary entries near celt

  1. ‹ Celsius
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  5. ‹ celom
  6. ‹ cellulous
  7. ‹ cellulosic
  8. ‹ cellulose nitrate
  9. ‹ cellulose acetate
  10. ‹ cellulose
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