Gael
noun
a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
Gael
1 American
[geyl]
/ geɪl /
noun
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Gaels
plural
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a Scottish Celt or Highlander.
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a Gaelic-speaking Celt.
Gael.
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Gael
abbreviation
Gael
British
/ ɡeɪl /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Gael
1590–1600; < Scots Gaelic Gaidheal, Old Irish Goidel
Example Sentences
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Former France full-back Gael Clichy, who played in the first year of Deschamps' reign, praised his former boss on BBC Radio 5 Live.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
“My mom sent me an article where it said the last Mexican actor to have two films simultaneously at the festival was the master Gael García Bernal,” he says excitedly.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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
“I think Abuelo tried to tell him before I was born, but Gael wasn’t trying to hear about it.”
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
The Gael. abh, 'water,' appears in Aboyne, Awe.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
In the Gael. and Ir. ban, white, we may probably find the meaning of the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Gael. and Ir. machd, a wave, I find the root of the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
In the latter sense we have the Gael. car or char, tortuous, the Ang.-Sax. cêrran, to turn or bend, &c., to which I place the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Gael. bras or G. barsch harsh, sharp, tart, impetuous, D. barsch, Sw.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
But it was Johnson and the Gaels who survived in the end.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Chesterton nailed it when he said “the great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
Caoimh Mallon is the club secretary for Fullen Gaels, the only senior camogie team in the north of England.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Mason, a 6-foot-9 forward who opened his conference tournament with the Gaels the following day, arrived in Las Vegas about one hour before tip-off of the Pac-12 championship game against Stanford.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
“The main thing is that the war is going to happen because the Teutons or the Galls or whatever you call them upset the Gaels long ago.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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