Gael
1 Americannoun
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a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
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a Gaelic-speaking Celt.
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Etymology
Origin of Gael
1590–1600; < Scots Gaelic Gaidheal, Old Irish Goidel
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Rooney and fellow BBC pundits Gael Clichy and Olivier Giroud all thought Conceicao was in a better position to shoot at goal himself rather than try to set up Ronaldo for the striker's first chance.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
“I went with Gael to watch the final match from the 1990–91 season, where Pumas became champions,” he recalls.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
Gael García Bernal stars in the director’s epic—full of beautiful, often static imagery—about the Portuguese explorer, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
At the start of the tournament, he axed France's all-time leading try scorer Damian Penaud, still only 29, along with back-row stalwart and sometime captain Gregory Alldritt and veteran centre Gael Fickou.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
But there were no longer any organized traces of the chivalry of the Gael Merlyn met the King as he rode back from Sorhaute—a magician rather tired, and still unmounted.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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