(n.) One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
(n.) A weapon or implement of stone or metal, found in the tumuli, or barrows, of the early Celtic nations.
Example Sentences:
(1) But knowing that you have to stick to the facts of what the Celts wore, or how the Tudors treated illness, concentrates the mind.
(2) Bronze objects of Western European (Scottish, Irish) origin, found in Viking graves widely distributed in Norway, have been taken as evidence of Vikings returning with loot (including a number of Celts) from Western Viking settlements.
(3) The matter was cleared up with the help of a neck chain that was a precursor to the torques worn by the Celts; thus the skeleton was about 2500 years old.
(4) The cape was a sacred location for Celts, Greeks and Romans.
(5) Waves of immigrants, from the Celts through the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans to the Dutch in the 17th century, Germans in the 18th and 19th, Russian and German Jews fleeing persecution in the 1890s and 1930s, West Indians, Cypriots, Pakistanis, Indians, Bangladeshis and many others coming to Britain during the disintegration of the empire, and many, many more, have all made their contribution to our multicultural identity.
(6) Cranioplasty with bone allografts dates from the Stone Age Celts.
(7) No relationship was noted between the growth potential of megakaryocyte progenitors and platelet count, number of CD4+ celts, platelet response to azidothymidine, and platelet count 7 days after culture.
(8) His major works on the "primitive" Celts and Germans continue these critiques of racism.
(9) "If you do the history, the Celts are the ancient Britons.
(10) Differences in constitution to the southern neighbours, Celts and Romans, were not so marked, that constitutional changes in Germany, especially in southern Germany, in the middle ages can be explained by mixed race.
(11) Celts, Norwegians and Swedes all have higher incidences of melanoma than people of similar skin colour living in the same latitude.
(12) I think I can speak for the vast majority of petty celts, Christopher, when I say that should USA triumph tonight, Landon Donovan, Jozy Altidore, Tim Howard and chums will never have to buy a drink in Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland again.
(13) Scraping away at the green patina on the new-look, Zac Goldsmith-inspired Conservative environmental policies, puncturing Brown's grumpy greenery and unpicking the carbon contortions of the coal-loving Celts.
(14) The mixed Europeans had a somewhat greater increase in the melanocyte population density following exposure to sunlight than the Celts.
(15) But the idea that it makes Celts more inclined to bend the knee to Whitehall is absurd.
(16) The 268 cases and 1577 controls showed odds ratios of 1.9 for red hair, 2.0 for skin that burns in the sun, and no difference between indoor and outdoor workers or between Celts and other Europeans, consistent with the results of more recent studies.
(17) Biochemical assays indicate that a cel structural gene (celT) specifies a single transport protein that is a beta-glucoside specific enzyme of the phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent phosphotransferase system.
(18) It is also a fascinating meditation on the complexity of the Scots character, half Celt, half Saxon.
(19) Rudeness about Celts may be a political parlour game in London, sometimes justified.
(20) Objectives of current studies are the determination of relationships between performance on CELTs and performance on traditional cognitive abilities tests and the exploration of predictive value of measures of learning ability for academic performance.
Celtic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.
(n.) The language of the Celts.
Example Sentences:
(1) But right now all my focus is on Falkenbergs.” Larsson’s appeal to Celtic is clear.
(2) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(3) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(4) "Celtic fans still regularly belt out The Ballad of Willie Maley," writes Mark Sheffield.
(5) Then again, any show attracting reviews as bad as Celtic have had in the last week would be lucky to survive any longer at the Festival and this performance has left them on the fringes of European football.
(6) It is the largest space ever captured on the indoor Street View, and there are various addons, such as specially curated virtual exhibitions – Celtic Life in Iron Age Britain, for example – and a Museum of the World microsite linking objects on a timeline.
(7) Updated at 4.58pm BST 4.46pm BST Half time: Shakhter 1-0 Celtic 45 mins Mouyokolo does the most blatant of bodychecks on Finonchenko around the half-way line and gets his name in the yellow book for his troubles.
(8) All of which is knocked into a cocked one by the achievements of Martin O'Neill's Celtic.
(9) In the woodlands between Moravia, Lower Austria and Bohemia, mentioned by Ptolemaios under the Celtic name "Gabreta" (wild goats' wood, cf.
(10) In 1830, the Celtic seaboard nations made up nearly 40% of the United Kingdom; that dropped throughout the 19th century due to the Irish famine and emigration.
(11) Updated at 6.04pm BST 5.31pm BST 75 mins "Genuinely surprised that Matthews and Ambrose were left on the bench for Celtic today," says a shocked Michael Cafferky.
(12) His performance was encapsulated by the shrug that was his simple response to a Celtics fan who threw beer on him after the game .
(13) "Celtic did not create anything but scored two goals," he said.
(14) Their search has not enjoyed the most auspicious of starts with Rodgers, who recently signed a one-year rolling contract at Celtic, having distanced himself from the position and the West Ham co-chairman David Gold ruling out Bilic leaving.
(15) His face was found carved into tree trunks all over Celtic lands and his hold over the early Britons was so powerful that early Christians relented and adopted the green man's image as a force for good and a symbol of new life and renewal.
(16) Legia believed he was free to play after missing the two games against St Patrick’s Athletic as well as the first leg against Celtic in Warsaw.
(17) It was good to get back on,” said Griffiths, who then turned his attention to the fourth-round cup tie against the League One side, where Celtic will look to keep their treble dreams alive.
(18) Pulis had wanted to do all his business early and has cut a frustrated figure with reinforcements far from forthcoming, but there should be a flurry of deals completed today: Wayne Hennessey has undertaken a medical and should complete a £3m move from Wolverhampton Wanderers; Celtic have accepted a bid of around £800,000 for Joe Ledley , who is out of contract in the summer and also undertaking medical tests; Ivan Ramis spent Thursday at Palace's Copers Cope training ground and may arrive from Wigan Athletic, his move hinging upon the extent of cruciate knee ligament damage from earlier in his career; the Blackburn centre-back Scott Dann is in Beckenham to talk terms over a proposed switch from Ewood Park.
(19) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(20) Pint from £3.20 Brigantes Bar & Brasserie Brigantes Bar and Brasserie, York This bare, plain drinking space – stripped wooden floor, blue and cream colour scheme, Celtic cross logo – looks a bit like an O'Neill's, but the beer range is worlds away from the Oirish chain.