Celtic

Celts

The Celts or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples in Europe and Anatolia, identified by their use of Celtic languages and other cultural similarities. Major Celtic groups included the Gauls; the Celtiberians and Gallaeci of Iberia; the Britons, Picts, and Gaels of Britain and Ireland; the Boii; and the Galatians. The interrelationships of ethnicity, language and culture in the Celtic world are unclear and debated; for example over the ways in which the Iron Age people of Britain and Ireland should be called Celts. In current scholarship, "Celt" primarily refers to speakers of Celtic languages, not to a single ethnic group.

Celts (modern)

Modern Celts are peoples identified with Celtic languages or cultures, living in regions known as Celtic nations on the western extremities of Europe, which were historically associated with ancient Celts.

Celtic

Proper noun

1. A branch of the Indo-European languages that was spread widely over Western and Central Europe in the pre-Christian era.
2. Any of several sports teams. See Wikipedia for a list.

Adjective

1. Of or relating to the Celts.
2. Of the languages spoken by Celts.