SCOT

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• SCOT (noun)
  The noun SCOT has 1 sense:

1. a native or inhabitant of Scotland

  Familiarity information: SCOT used as a noun is very rare.

• SCOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Scot; Scotchman; Scotsman

Hypernyms ("Scot" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Scot"):

Scotchwoman; Scotswoman (a woman who is a Scot)

Glaswegian (an inhabitant of Glasgow)

Highland Scot; Highlander; Scottish Highlander (a native of the Highlands of Scotland)

Lowland Scot; Lowlander; Scottish Lowlander (a native of the Lowlands of Scotland)

Holonyms ("Scot" is a member of...):

Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)

 Context examples 

But it is not nature that an English-born man should love a Scot or a Frenchman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A traditional unit of volume equal to 4 Scots quarts, or approximately three British Imperial gallons, or 3.6 US liquid gallons, or 13.63 liters.

(Gallon Scotland, NCI Thesaurus)

“I have heard that the Scots are good men of war,” said Hordle John.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And why the Scots, my pretty lads?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You have borne arms against the Scots, then?” he asked.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That we may fight the Scots,” they answered. “Daddy will send us to fight the Scots.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Later, I served under the Warden of Berwick, that very John Copeland of whom our friend spake, the same who held the King of Scots to ransom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Our business is with the Scots,” quoth the elder; “for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's string fingers and his thumbs.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We have seen French and Spanish galleys no further away than Southampton, but I doubt that it will be some time before the Scots find their way to these parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By Saint Paul! you have spoken very well, said Sir Nigel, and I have always heard that there were very worthy gentlemen among the Scots, and fine skirmishing to be had upon their border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)