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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 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
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 Football Club of Stalybridge (near Manchester), England

★ Celt (tool), a type of stone tool