BOY SCOUTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Boy Scouts mean? 

• BOY SCOUTS (noun)
  The noun BOY SCOUTS has 1 sense:

1. an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys

  Familiarity information: BOY SCOUTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOY SCOUTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Boy Scouts" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Meronyms (members of "Boy Scouts"):

Boy Scouts of America (a corporation that operates through a national council that charters local councils all over the United States; the purpose is character building and citizenship training)

Boy Scout (a boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts)