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Definition of Pict in English: Pictnoun pɪktpɪkt A member of an ancient people inhabiting northern Scotland in Roman times. (古罗马时代居住在苏格兰北部的)皮可特人 Example sentencesExamples - Ancient Scots and Picts erected a 10 ft tall standing stone at the site to commemorate the historic act.
- Britain is a mongrel country of Britons, Celts, Scots, Picts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, members of the Empire and Commonwealth, and many more groups.
- The kingdom was created by the Gaels of northern Argyll, who advanced up the Great Glen and, with the Norse from Orkney, overcame the Picts in northern Scotland in the 9th cent.
- Three peoples were involved, the Scots from Ireland, the Picts from eastern Scotland, and the Attacotti, a people of unknown but presumably northern origin.
- First, Scotland was multi-ethnic: Britons, Irish, Picts, English, Norse.
- Only the Picts, possibly, diverged from the European pattern of male descent with their apparently matrilinear succession to the kingship, though this is much debated.
- Hadrian was also known for building a wall to defend Roman Britain from the Scottish Picts to the North.
- Archaeological and textual evidence demonstrates the antiquity of these forms, which were carried out in cultures as diverse as the ancient Egyptians, Celts, Picts, and Germans.
- Or did the Vikings make these combs specifically to trade with the Picts?
- But for the present, we should consider the possibility that Vikings and Picts had similar views on the role of Christianity.
- That the Vikings were settling on the same sites as those used by the Picts before them - and their Iron Age and Stone Age ancestors before them - is quite clear.
- In Scotland, British tribes shared the landspace with the Picts, who occupied the territory north of the Forth; and the Scots / Irish who lived west of the mountain ranges of Argyll.
- While you are somewhat correct that Celtic languages became marginalized, there were plenty of Gaelic speakers in southern Scotland and in the Hebrides, and where this was not so was in areas where the Picts held dominance.
- Constantine, fearing interception by the western Caesar, Flavius Valerius Severus, hastened to Britain to aid his father against the Picts.
- Success has also brought the time to explore the visual cultures of the diverse peoples whose symbols inform his art, from the Australian bushmen to Caribbean Indians, and historically, the Ancient Egyptians, Celts and Picts.
- Faced with invasion by a coalition of Picts and Saxons, the Roman citizens of Britain appeal to the Emperor for help; but Honorius is in no position to aid them.
- It is not till AD.300 that we read of the Caledonians and other Picts; in the 4th century they frequently harried the Romans up to the wall of Hadrian, between Tyne and Soiway.
- After the departure of the Romans in about 420, there were many wars in England involving Scots, Picts, Britons and Saxons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes, and, in 1066, the Norman conquest.
- The non-English parts of the UK have ten million Gaels, Celts, Picts, Irish, Scots and Vikings.
- But the Romans never subdued the northern tribes - variously referred to as Brigantes, Caledonians and Picts - who repeatedly launched raids into the mighty Roman Empire.
Roman writings of around 300 AD apply the term Picti to the hostile tribes of the area north of the Antonine Wall. Their origins are uncertain, but they may have been a loose confederation of Celtic tribes Derivativesadjective & noun ˈpɪktɪʃ Other finds included a whalebone weaving comb, and the earliest black-painted Pictish pebbles yet found, dating to about 100 BC. Example sentencesExamples - The development site has possible Pictish burial cairns on it and the proposed quarry is bordered by a Site of Special Scientific Interest, designated for its assemblage of fluvioglacial landforms.
- Probably first built in the late Bronze Age, about 3,000 years ago, it is likely to have been reoccupied by a Pictish chieftain.
- The curved style of the walls suggest that this earlier structure dates from the 8th century and could be the remains of a Pictish monastery.
- These drawings have been assumed to be Viking, but the style of carving is Pictish.
OriginFrom late Latin Picti, perhaps from pict- 'painted, tattooed' (from pingere 'to paint'), or perhaps influenced by a local name. Rhymesaddict, afflict, conflict, constrict, contradict, convict, delict, depict, evict, hand-picked, inflict, interdict, predict, reconvict, strict Definition of Pict in US English: Pictnounpiktpɪkt A member of an ancient people inhabiting northern Scotland in Roman times. (古罗马时代居住在苏格兰北部的)皮可特人 Roman writings of around AD 300 apply the term Picti to the hostile tribes of the area north of the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde. Their origins are uncertain, but they may have been a loose confederation of Celtic tribes Example sentencesExamples - Three peoples were involved, the Scots from Ireland, the Picts from eastern Scotland, and the Attacotti, a people of unknown but presumably northern origin.
- In Scotland, British tribes shared the landspace with the Picts, who occupied the territory north of the Forth; and the Scots / Irish who lived west of the mountain ranges of Argyll.
- Faced with invasion by a coalition of Picts and Saxons, the Roman citizens of Britain appeal to the Emperor for help; but Honorius is in no position to aid them.
- Britain is a mongrel country of Britons, Celts, Scots, Picts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, members of the Empire and Commonwealth, and many more groups.
- Constantine, fearing interception by the western Caesar, Flavius Valerius Severus, hastened to Britain to aid his father against the Picts.
- The non-English parts of the UK have ten million Gaels, Celts, Picts, Irish, Scots and Vikings.
- After the departure of the Romans in about 420, there were many wars in England involving Scots, Picts, Britons and Saxons, Anglo-Saxons and Danes, and, in 1066, the Norman conquest.
- It is not till AD.300 that we read of the Caledonians and other Picts; in the 4th century they frequently harried the Romans up to the wall of Hadrian, between Tyne and Soiway.
- First, Scotland was multi-ethnic: Britons, Irish, Picts, English, Norse.
- But the Romans never subdued the northern tribes - variously referred to as Brigantes, Caledonians and Picts - who repeatedly launched raids into the mighty Roman Empire.
- Hadrian was also known for building a wall to defend Roman Britain from the Scottish Picts to the North.
- Or did the Vikings make these combs specifically to trade with the Picts?
- That the Vikings were settling on the same sites as those used by the Picts before them - and their Iron Age and Stone Age ancestors before them - is quite clear.
- Archaeological and textual evidence demonstrates the antiquity of these forms, which were carried out in cultures as diverse as the ancient Egyptians, Celts, Picts, and Germans.
- But for the present, we should consider the possibility that Vikings and Picts had similar views on the role of Christianity.
- Success has also brought the time to explore the visual cultures of the diverse peoples whose symbols inform his art, from the Australian bushmen to Caribbean Indians, and historically, the Ancient Egyptians, Celts and Picts.
- Ancient Scots and Picts erected a 10 ft tall standing stone at the site to commemorate the historic act.
- The kingdom was created by the Gaels of northern Argyll, who advanced up the Great Glen and, with the Norse from Orkney, overcame the Picts in northern Scotland in the 9th cent.
- While you are somewhat correct that Celtic languages became marginalized, there were plenty of Gaelic speakers in southern Scotland and in the Hebrides, and where this was not so was in areas where the Picts held dominance.
- Only the Picts, possibly, diverged from the European pattern of male descent with their apparently matrilinear succession to the kingship, though this is much debated.
OriginFrom late Latin Picti, perhaps from pict- ‘painted, tattooed’ (from pingere ‘to paint’), or perhaps influenced by a local name. |