Celtic
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The words Celt and Celtic can have a variety of meanings.
Sometimes a pronunciation distinction is maintained - see Pronunciation of Celtic. The following may be pronounced either /kelt(ik)/ or /selt(ik)/, but in academic use there is a clear preference for /kelt(ik)/:
- Celts, European Celtic people, either ancient or Modern Celts
- Celtic art, cultural art that avoids straight lines and only occasionally uses symmetry, or knotwork that is typically recognizable by interlocking lines and figures
- Celtic calendar
- Celtic Christianity
- Celtic Congress seeks to promote the Celtic languages in the Celtic nations.
- Celtic Crusaders Wales' only professional rugby league side.
- Celtic horoscope
- Celtic languages, descending from the Proto-Celtic language, spoken by these people and their modern descendants
- Celtic law
- Celtic League (political organisation)
- Celtic League (rugby union)
- Celtic Lenses, a line of lower priced SLR lenses offered by Minolta in the 1970s and 80s
- Celtic music, referring to folk music that originated from "Celtic" cultures
- Celtic mythology, Celtic polytheism, Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism and a List of Celtic deities
- Celtic nations Ireland, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany
- Celtic Sea
- Celtic Studies, an academic discipline associated with the study of Celtic language, history and culture
- Celtiberians for a Celtic people on the Iberian peninsula
- Celtici, Celts from ancient Lusitania (modern day Portugal)
- Pan-Celticism
- Celtic (water), a bottled water from France
- RMS Celtic (1901), a White Star Line ship
- SS Celtic (1872), a White Star Line ship
The following should only be pronounced /selt(ik)/:
- Belfast Celtic former Irish/Northern Irish football team
- Bloemfontein Celtic
- Boston Celtics professional basketball team in the U.S.A.
- Celtic F.C. of Glasgow, Scotland
- Donegal Celtic Northern Irish football team
- Farsley Celtic A.F.C. of Farsley (near Leeds), West Yorkshire, England
- Lurgan Celtic Football Club of Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
- Oban Celtic a shinty club from Oban, Scotland
- Stalybridge Celtic F.C. of Stalybridge (near Manchester), England
- Dewsbury Celtic Rugby League team of Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
- Celt (tool), a type of stone tool
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