English word senses marked with topical category "Celtic tribes"

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Total 43 word senses

• Aedui (Proper name) A Gallic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis whose chief town was Bibracte
• Arverni (Noun) A member of an ancient, powerful Gallic tribe living in what is now the Auvergne region of France, who opposed the Romans on several occasions.
• Astur (Noun) A member of a tribe in northern Spain until the first century BC.
• Boii (Noun) A Gallic tribe of the later Iron Age.
• Briton (Noun) An inhabitant of Great Britain, particularly (historical) a Celt from the area of Roman Britain or (obsolete) a Welshman.
• Brython (Noun) A (historical) Briton: a member of that people that spoke Brythonic languages.
• Caledonian (Noun) Someone from the ancient Celtic tribe (or group of tribes) called Caledonians, in Scotland
• Celt (Noun) A member of one of the ancient peoples of Western Europe called Celtae by the Romans.
• Celtiberi (Noun) The Celtiberian people.
• Celtiberian (Noun) A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.
• Dumnonian (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Dumnonia.
• Eburones (Noun) A Belgic people of Germanic or Celtic descent who lived in the upper north of Gaul in ancient times.
• Galatian (Noun) A member of an ancient Celtic tribe from Galatia (now part of Turkey)
• Gallaeci (Noun) An ancient Celtic people who inhabited Gallaecia.
• Gallaecian (Noun) One of the Gallaeci
• Gallic (Adjective) Of or related to Gaul or the Gauls.
• Gaul (Noun) A person from Gaul.
• Gaulish (Adjective) Of or pertaining to the Celtic tribes speaking Gaulish languages.
• Goidel (Noun) A Gael; a member of the Goidelic division of Celtic languages as opposed to the Brythonic division.
• Hallstatt (Proper name) The Hallstatt culture of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age.
• Hallstattian (Adjective) Of or relating to the Hallstatt culture, often linked to Celtic, Proto-Celtic, and pre-Illyrian peoples in Early Iron Age Europe, c.800–450 BC.
• Helvetic (Adjective) Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitants of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions.
• Helvetii (Proper name) A Gallic tribe that occupied the plain of Switzerland.
• Iceni (Noun) A Brythonic tribe in Britannia who inhabited an area corresponding roughly to the modern-day county of Norfolk, from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
• Insubres (Noun) A Gaulish people who lived in Insubria.
• Keltoi (Noun) The Celts.
• La Tène (Proper name) A European Iron Age culture, apparently Celtic.
• Lepontii (Proper name) The Lepontii, an Alpine Celtic tribe, who dwelt in the valleys of the south side of the Alps, in roughly Switzerland.
• Noric (Adjective) Of or relating to the ancient region of Noricum.
• Norican (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Noricum.
• Noricum (Proper name) A Celtic state and later Roman province, approximately corresponding to modern Austria.
• Parisii (Noun) A Celtic tribe of Gallia Lugdunensis, whose chief town was Lutetia; Paris, the capital of France, is named after them.
• Parisii (Noun) A British Celtic tribe located somewhere within the present-day East Riding of Yorkshire, in England, known from a single reference by Ptolemy, and possibly connected with the more widely known Parisii of Gaul.
• Pict (Noun) A member of an ancient people of northern and central Scotland.
• Pictavi (Noun) Synonym of Pictones (“Celtic tribe”)
• Pictish (Adjective) Of or pertaining to the Picts.
• Pictones (Noun) A Celtic tribe of Aquitania, whose capital was Limonum.
• Senones (Noun) A Gaulish tribe in the Roman period.
• Sequani (Noun) A Gallic people from north-east France
• Silurian (Adjective) Of or related to the Silures, a pre-Roman British tribe.
• Tartessian (Noun) A member of the Tartessian civilization
• Turdetani (Noun) A tribe of Hispania Baetica who lived near the Turduli.
• Vindelici (Noun) A former Celtic people of Switzerland and southern Germany.

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