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Celtics

Celtics

78 2.6
A basketball team from Boston that plays in the NBA
  • proper noun
  • /ˈsɛltɪks/
translation icon : Boston Celtics
  • The Boston Celtics take a 3-2 lead in the World Championship series.
  • Boston Celtics

It's been running around because the Celtics won the championship last year.

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Examples

  • It's been running around because the Celtics won the championship last year.

  • I was at that Celtics game where you did the turnaround jumper at the buzzer.

  • Something was going on for the Celtics on the court, but not a lot of it was good.

    Blog text (2)
  • So the Boston Celtics, I just want to show you how important this is in that organization.

  • You ever hear of the Boston Celtics basketball club? - Yeah.

  • I think with a fully healthy Celtics team, they're going to be really hard to beat.

  • Fortunately for the Celtics, Rondo was back to his surgical ways with the offense.

    Blog text (2)
  • In December 1956, the Celtics played a game in St. Louis's Kiel.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Wide angle reveals: a basketball game in progress, Sixers versus the Celtics in Philly's Spectrum Arena.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The Boston Celtics won their latest game by a score of 110 to 98 against the Lakers.

Synonyms

basketball team
vsCeltics
72 1.1

A group of players who play basketball together in competitions

is a professional Boston franchise that competes in the NBA

Surface Forms

Celtics main

Morphology

Celtics = Celtic (transparent) = Celtic + s

A straightforward plural formation from the base 'Celtic' to mark the team name (plural), so the morphological relation is clear.

Etymology

Celtics comes from Celt, the name for the long-ago people of Ireland and Scotland, and the Boston team took this name to honor the city's large Irish community and to show a proud, fighting spirit.