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celts, plural;
  1. A prehistoric stone or metal implement with a beveled cutting edge, probably used as a tool or weapon

  1. a member of a European people who once occupied Britain and Spain and Gaul prior to Roman times
  2. CELT (Constrained Energy Lapped Transform) is an open, royalty-free audio compression format and a free software codec for use in low-latency audio communication. It's a lossy codec, meaning quality is permanently degraded to reduce file size.
  3. The origin of the various names used since classical times for the people known today as the Celts is obscure and has been controversial. ...
  4. Celt is an archaeological term used to describe long thin prehistoric stone or bronze adzes, other axe-like tools, and hoes.
  5. The Celts (or , see names of the Celts) were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages.
  6. (Celtism) Celtic Neopaganism refers to Neopagan movements based on Celtic polytheism.
  7. (Celts (modern)) A Celtic identity emerges in the Celtic nations of Western Europe in the course of the 19th-century Celtic Revival, taking the form of ethnic nationalism particularly within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, where the Irish Home Rule Movement results in the ...
  8. (The Celts (BBC documentary)) The Celts is the title of a 1986 documentary series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, written and presented by Frank Delaney. Delaney also wrote an accompanying book. ...
  9. (The Celts (song)) The Celts is a hit song by Irish musician Enya. Sung entirely in Irish, it is the theme song to the 1986 BBC documentary "The Celts", and was first released in the 1987 album Enya. ...
  10. a prehistoric chisel-bladed tool
  11. the ancient peoples of Western Europe, called by the Romans Celtæ; the modern speakers of Celtic languages
  12. (Celts) Inhabited most of Britain and Ireland; organized in small regional kingdoms; featured mixed agricultural and hunting economies; replaced in most places by Germans. (p. 236)
  13. (Celts) Muscular, red-haired nomads who wandered through Europe most likely from beyond the Caspian Sea. About 400 B.C. they crossed the Swiss Alps and laid siege to Rome. ...
  14. (Celts) Non-playable. This factions begins on the island of modern Ireland, and will be a threat to either the Western Romans or the Romano-British. One of the few barbarian factions with decent cavalry it has access to a number of unique units, however its military tends to rout often.
  15. (Celts) Peoples sharing a common language and culture that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E.. After 500 B.C.E. ...
  16. (Celts) The people called “Κελτοί”, later “Κέλται” (“Keltoí ”, later “Kéltai ”) by Greek writers. They were the same people more commonly called “Gall·i, -ōrum” (m. pl.) by Roman writers, although the latter did sometimes call them “Celt·ae, -ārum” (f.[!?] pl.) instead [*]. ...
  17. (Celts) The tribe of European peoples of Indo-European origin who migrated into eastern Europe about 6000 BCE from the crescent area between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. ...
  18. A thin, ungroved axe with a sharp edge used for cutting or chopping. Probably hafted into a wooden handle.
  19. (3) -- stone sculptor’s chisel (Oxford Dict.)
  20. an ungrooved axe of metal or polished stone.
  21. prehistoric stone tool, such as an axehead.
  22. An implement shaped like a chisel or an axe; may be made of stone or metal.
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  24. a member of a division of the early Indo-European peoples distributed from the British Isles and Spain to Asia Minor.^1
  25. A race of people who once covered Europe but who are now restricted to Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittony and the Isle of Man. The majority of modern Witches are descended directly or by literature, from the Celts.