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Definition scout

Etymology 1

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultare (“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.
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. (Britain) A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.
6. (Britain, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
7. (historical, Britain, up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
8. (informal) Term of address for a man or boy.

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

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.

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

From Middle English scouten (“to jut out, project”), from Old Norse skúta (“to jut out”), cognate with Icelandic skúta (“to jut out”).

Noun

scout (plural scouts)

1. (archaic) A projecting rock.

Etymology 5

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.

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