Results for gaelic

Definitions of gaelic:

part of speech: noun

The northern or Gadhelic branch of the Celtic family of languages, embracing the Irish, the Highland- Scottish, and the Manx: ( more commonly) the Highland- Scottish dialect.

part of speech: adjective

Pert. to the Scottish Highlanders or their language.

part of speech: adjective

Pertaining to the Gaels or Scottish Highlanders.

part of speech: noun

The language of the Highlanders of Scotland; a dialect of the Celtic language.

Usage examples for gaelic:

• You have the Gaelic of the Isles. "The Best Psychic Stories", Various

• Like the men, they all talked Gaelic "Our Journey to the Hebrides", Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell

• We understand enough of Gaelic to know it was not exactly blessing us she was. "What's Mine's Mine", George MacDonald

• " For 1200 years at least, they have been," he says, " intimately bound up with the thought and feelings of the whole Gaelic race in Ireland and Scotland." "The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland", T. W. Rolleston