Meaning

13 senses

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

    Kundschafter, Kundschafterin, Späher

    разве́дчикrazvédčik, разве́дчицаrazvédčica

    розві́дникrozvídnyk, розві́дницяrozvídnycja, розві́дувачrozvíduvač

  2. An act of scouting or reconnoitering.

    Erkundung, Aufklärung

    разве́дкаrazvédka

    ро́звідкаrózvidka, розві́дкаrozvídka

    a member of the Scouting movement

  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.

    Pfadfinder, Pfadfinderin

    ска́утskáut, бойска́утbojskáut, пионе́рpionér

    ска́утskáut

  4. A person who assesses 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.

    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

  6. (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. (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)A fielder in a game for practice.

  9. (UK, historical)A fighter aircraft.

  10. A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.

  11. (informal)A term of address for a man or boy.

  12. (dated)A swift sailing boat.

Examples

57 sentences

  1. Are you a real boy scout?

    deBist du wirklich Pfadfinder?

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  2. The boy scouts went from door to door selling what they had made.

    ruБойскауты ходили от двери к двери, продавая свои поделки.

    deDie Pfadfinder gingen von Tür zu Tür, um selbstangefertigte Sachen zu verkaufen.

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  3. Tom was a boy scout.

    ruТом был бойскаутом.

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  4. I was a boy scout.

    ruЯ был бойскаутом.

    deIch war Pfadfinder.

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  5. Tom wasn't a boy scout.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
person sent out to gain and bring in tidings:
act of scouting:
member of the scout movement:
Русский
By meaning 3
person sent out to gain and bring in tidings:
act of scouting:
member of the scout movement:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person sent out to gain and bring in tidings:
act of scouting:
member of the scout movement:

Origin

From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal

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.

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”). Compare shout (“flat-bottomed boat”), schuit.

Uncertain. The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) groups the verb scout, scoot (/skut/, regionally /skʌut/) "cause liquid to gush" with a noun scout "sudden gush or flow of water, as from a spout or over rock", and considers the pair to be of Scandinavian origin, perhaps related to Old Norse skjóta (“shoot”); however, scout (or scut) was formerly also found as a word for "flow of water over rocks, waterfall; ridge or overhang of rocks" in various northern and central English dialects, and there suggested to have a different Norse origin, Old Norse skúti (“cave formed by jutting rocks”); it is possible that noun and the verb are unrelated. It is also unclear whether the noun meaning "guillemot" is related (the DSL gives it as a separate word, with separate spellings scout, scowt, skout, pronounced /skut/, of uncertain origin), but it might derive from their habit of pouring forth excrement.

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Forms

plural: scouts
Singularscout
Pluralscouts

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
espialespy
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words
Derivedboy scoutscout balloonscoutessscouthousescoutmasterscout teamtalent scout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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