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Definitions and meaning of scout

scout

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /skaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [skʌʊt]
• Rhymes: -aʊt
• Homophone: Scout

Etymology 1

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) espial, (obsolete) espy

2. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
3. A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
4. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
5. A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
6. (Oxford University, modern) A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
7. (Oxford University, Harvard University, Yale University, historical) A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
8. (UK, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
9. (historical, UK, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
10. (radiography) A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
11. (informal) Term of address for a man or boy.

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Translations

Verb

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.

   Synonyms: survey, reconnoiter
2. (transitive) To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.

Derived terms

• scout about
• scout around
• scout out
• scout round
• scout up

Translations

Etymology 2

Of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skúta, skúti (“taunt”), Middle English scoute (“a wretch, rascal, rogue”); thus may be related to English shout.

Verb

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (transitive) To reject with contempt.
2. (intransitive) To scoff.

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English scoute, skoute (also schoute, shoute, schuyt), from Middle Low German schûte or Middle Dutch schute; or possibly from Old Norse skúta (“a small craft or cutter”).

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. (dated) A swift sailing boat.

Etymology 4

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Verb

scout (third-person singular simple present scouts, present participle scouting, simple past and past participle scouted)

1. (Scotland) To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement.

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. The guillemot.

See also

• Scout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Scout in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Further reading

• “scout”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “scout”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “scout”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English scout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɑu̯t/
• Hyphenation: scout
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

Noun

scout m (plural scouts)

1. A scout, a boy scout or girl scout.

   Synonym: padvinder

2. (sports) A talent scout.

Related terms

• scouting

French

Pronunciation

Noun

scout m (plural scouts)

1. scout, boy scout

Derived terms

• parole de scout

Further reading

• “scout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of boyscout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈskawt/
• Rhymes: -awt

Noun

scout m or f by sense (invariable)

1. scout (a member of the international scout movement)

   Synonym: esploratore

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English scout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esˈkaut/ [esˈkau̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -aut

Noun

scout m or f by sense (plural scouts)

1. scout

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Noun

scout c

1. scout; a member of the international scout movement.

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