SCOTT

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• SCOTT (noun)
  The noun SCOTT has 5 senses:

1. award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)

2. English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)

3. United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866)

4. British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)

5. United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)

  Familiarity information: SCOTT used as a noun is common.

• SCOTT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Award-winning United States film actor (1928-1999)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

George C. Scott; Scott

Instance hypernyms:

actor; histrion; player; role player; thespian (a theatrical performer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

English explorer who reached the South Pole just a month after Amundsen; he and his party died on the return journey (1868-1912)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Robert Falcon Scott; Robert Scott; Scott

Instance hypernyms:

adventurer; explorer (someone who travels into little known regions (especially for some scientific purpose))

Sense 3

Meaning:

United States general who was a hero of the War of 1812 and who defeated Santa Anna in the Mexican War (1786-1866)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Scott; Winfield Scott

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

Sense 4

Meaning:

British author of historical novels and ballads (1771-1832)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Scott; Sir Walter Scott; Walter Scott

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 5

Meaning:

United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state; caused the Supreme Court to declare the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional (1795?-1858)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Dred Scott; Scott

Instance hypernyms:

slave (a person who is owned by someone)

 Context examples 

"It's a wolf and there's no taming it," Weedon Scott announced.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Scotts came to the Brookes' now, and everyone found the little house a cheerful place, full of happiness, content, and family love.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Pericentrin is also an AKAP (Diviani and Scott).

(Centrosome Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The lean man with the weak knees is General Scott who lives upon toast and water and has won £200,000 at whist.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

Are you Mr. John Scott Eccles, of Popham House, Lee?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Great Scott! Is this a game?"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Have you the chisel and the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I’ll swing for it!”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, Early morning shot of Hurricane ‎Joaquin‬ from space station before reaching ‪‎Bahamas‬.

(Hurricane Joaquin From the International Space Station, NASA)

He would gain cheerfulness, and she would learn to be an enthusiast for Scott and Lord Byron; nay, that was probably learnt already; of course they had fallen in love over poetry.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)