Dictionary Definition
scout
Noun
1 a person employed to watch for something to
happen [syn: lookout,
lookout
man, sentinel,
sentry, watch, spotter, picket]
2 someone employed to discover and recruit
talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or
sports) [syn: talent
scout]
3 someone who can find paths through unexplored
territory [syn: pathfinder, guide] v : explore, often with the
goal of finding something or somebody [syn: reconnoiter, reconnoitre]
User Contributed Dictionary
see Scouts
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aʊt
Noun
- A swift sailing boat.
- A projecting rock.
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- 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.
- A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- , A term used until 1920's of a fighter aircraft.
Translations
person sent out to gain and bring in tidings
- Finnish: tiedustelija
- Italian: esploratore
- Japanese: 斥候
act of scouting
- Finnish: tiedustelu, partiointi
- Italian: ricognizione
- Japanese: スカウト
member of the scout movement
- Danish: spejder
- Esperanto: skolta
- Faroese: skóti
- Finnish: partiolainen
- German: Pfadfinder
- Italian: Scout
- Japanese: スカウト
- Swedish: scout
one who identifies promising talent
- Danish: talentspejder
- Finnish: kykyjenmetsästäjä
Verb
- To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
- To explore a wide terrain, as on a search.
to explore a wide terrain
- Finnish: partioida
Italian
Noun
scout- scout; a member of the international scout movement.
Synonyms
Swedish
Noun
scout- scout; a member of the international scout movement.
Extensive Definition
Scout may refer to:
- Scouting, a
worldwide youth movement
- Boy Scout
- Girl Guide and Girl Scout
- Sea Scout, Air Scout, Venture Scout, see Age Groups in Scouting and Guiding
- YES Scouts, Orphan Scouts supported under the Youth Education Support Project
- Scout - a military occupation of providing reconnaissance
- Scout Taylor-Compton, an American actress who starred in Rob Zombie's Halloween
- Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, a Division I Drum Corps
- Scout (comic), a comic book from Eclipse Comics
- Scout (Dungeons & Dragons), a character class in the roleplaying game
- Scout (sport), a professional sports talent scout
- Scout (Operating System)
- The Scout (book), by Steven Plaut
- The scout-class starfighter, a Protoss spacecraft in the StarCraft series
- Steyr Scout, a bolt-action rifle manufactured by Steyr
- Street Conditions Observation Unit, part of the government of the City of New York; see: Government of New York City#3-1-1
- Traditional Apache scout
- Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, the narrator of the book To Kill a Mockingbird
- A college servant at Oxford University (Bedder)
- Scout, A class in the Videogames Team Fortress Classic and Team Fortress 2
In transportation
- Scout (aircraft), used by several European air forces up to the inter-war period
- Scout (helicopter)
- Scout (passenger train)
- Scout (rocket), a U.S. rocket
- AD Scout, a U.K. World War I fighter aircraft
- Aeronca Scout, an American light aircraft
- 8GCBC Scout, an American light aircraft
- International Harvester Scout, an early SUV
- Mars Scout Program, a NASA program of small, low-cost missions to Mars
- Westland Scout, a British helicopter
scout in German: Scout
scout in Italian: Scout
scout in Japanese: スカウト
scout in Dutch: Scout
scout in Russian: Скаут
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Argus,
CIA man, Charley,
abhor, abjure, advance guard, airhead, airplane spotter,
ancestor, announcer, antecedent, avant-garde,
barrack, battle line, be
vigilant, be watchful, beachhead, bellwether, bridgehead, brush aside,
buccinator, bug, bushwhacker, case, chaff, check out, chuck, chuck out, cloak-and-dagger
operative, contemn,
contradict,
counterintelligence agent, counterspy, course, cover, cut at, decline, deny, deride, despise, dig at, dig out, dig
up, disapprove,
discard, disclaim, discount, discover, disdain, dismiss, disown, disregard, do, double agent, dump on, espionage
agent, examine, except, exclude, explore, explorer, eye, eyeball, farthest outpost,
ferret out, find, fire
patrolman, fire warden, fireguard, first line, fish
out, fleer, flout, follow, forebear, forefront, foregoer, forerunner, forswear, forward observer,
front, front line, front
rank, front runner, front-runner, frontiersman, fugleman, gaze at, gibe, go over, groundbreaker, grub up,
guide, harbinger, have a looksee,
herald, hold in derision,
hold in view, hunt out, ignore, innovator, inside man,
inspect, intelligence
agent, investigate,
jab, jab at, jape, jeer, keep in sight, keep in view,
keep under observation, laugh at, laugh to scorn, lead runner,
leader, line, locate, look after, look at, look
on, look over, look upon, lookout, lookout man, lout, make a reconnaissance,
measure, messenger,
military-intelligence man, mock, naval-intelligence man, night
watchman, observe,
operative, outguard, outpost, overpass, pass by, pass over,
pass through, pass up, pathfinder, patrol, patroller, patrolman, peep, perambulate, peregrinate, pererrate, picket, pioneer, play the spy, ply, point, pooh, pooh-pooh, precedent, precursor, predecessor, probe, pry out, push aside, put
down, put under surveillance, quiz, rail at, railhead, rally, range, range over, rank out,
razz, rebuff, recant, reconnoiter, reconnoiterer, refuse, refuse to consider,
regard, reject, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, research, revile, ridicule, root out, roundsman, scoff, scoff at, scorn, scorn to receive, scour, scour the country, scout
out, search out, secret agent, sentinel, sentry, set at defiance, shove
away, slam, slap at,
slight, slight over,
sneer, sneer at, spearhead, spit upon, spotter, spurn, spy, spy out, spy upon, spy-catcher,
stake out, stormy petrel, study, survey, sweep, swipe, taunt, throw away, throw out,
track, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transit, travel over, travel
through, traverse,
treat with contempt, turn away, turn out, twit, uncover, undercover man,
van, vanguard, vaunt-courier,
vedette, view, voortrekker, voyage, waive, watch, watcher, watchkeeper, watchman