scout

See also Scouts

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultare (“to listen”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. (dated) A swift sailing boat.
2. (archaic) A projecting rock.
3. A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
4. The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
5. 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.
6. A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
7. (UK) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
8. (UK) A fielder in a game for practice.
9. (historical), (UK) A term used until 1920's of a fighter aircraft.

Translations

person sent out to gain and bring in tidings

Czech: zvěd (cs) m. Esperanto: skolto (eo) Finnish: tiedustelija (fi) French: éclaireur (fr) m. Italian: esploratore (it) m.

Japanese: 斥候 (ja) (sekkō) Macedonian: извидник (mk) (ízvidnik) m., извидувач (mk) (izvíduvač) m. Portuguese: batedor (pt) Russian: разведчик (ru) (razvédčik) m.

act of scouting

Finnish: tiedustelu (fi), partiointi (fi) French: reconnaissance (fr) f. Italian: ricognizione (it) f.

Japanese: スカウト (ja) (sukauto) Macedonian: извидување (mk) (izvidúvanje) n. Russian: разведка (ru) (razvédka) f.

member of the scout movement

Czech: skaut (cs) m. Danish: spejder (da) c. Dutch: padvinder, scout (nl), verkenner (nl) Esperanto: skolto (eo) Estonian: skaut (et) Faroese: skóti (fo) m. Finnish: partiolainen (fi) French: éclaireur (fr) m., scout (fr) m.

German: Pfadfinder (de) m. Hungarian: cserkész (hu) Icelandic: flokksmeðlimur (is) Italian: Scout (it) m. Japanese: スカウト (ja) (sukauto) Macedonian: извидник (mk) (ízvidnik) m. Russian: скаут (ru) (skáut) m., (in the USSR) пионер (ru) (pionér) m. Swedish: scout (sv) c.

one who identifies promising talent

Danish: talentspejder

Finnish: kykyjenmetsästäjä (fi)

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
   • So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, ch. 45
2. To explore a wide terrain, as on a search.

Derived terms

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

Translations

to explore a wide terrain

Finnish: partioida (fi) French: aller en reconnaissance (fr), partir en reconnaissance (fr), explorer (fr), reconnaître le terrain (fr) German: aufklären (de), auskundschaften (de), ausspähen (de), beobachten (de), erkunden (de), spähen (de)

Italian: esplorare (it), perlustrare (it) Macedonian: извидува (mk) (izvíduva) Turkish: keşfetmek (tr)

See also

• Scout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• scout in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

External links

• scout in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• scout in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• scout at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Italian

Noun

scout m. inv.

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

Synonyms

• esploratore

Related terms

• scautismo
• lupetto
• rover
• guida
• coccinella
• scolta

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Swedish

Noun

scout c.

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

Declension

Declension of scout

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	scout	scouten	scouter	scouterna
genitive	scouts	scoutens	scouters	scouternas