SCOTTISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scottish mean? 

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

1. the language, languages or the dialect of English used in Scotland

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

• SCOTTISH (adjective)
  The adjective SCOTTISH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language. In this sense, 'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' etc.

  Familiarity information: SCOTTISH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOTTISH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The language, languages or the dialect of English used in Scotland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Scots; Scots English; Scottish

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

English; English language (an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries)

Domain region:

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)

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

Lallans; Scottish Lallans (a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland)

Derivation:

Scottish (of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language. In this sense, 'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' etc.)

• SCOTTISH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language. In this sense, 'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' etc.

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Scotch; Scots; Scottish

Context example:

'Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as 'Scotch broth' or 'Scotch whiskey' or 'Scotch plaid'

Pertainym:

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)

Derivation:

Scottish (the language, languages or the dialect of English used in Scotland)

 Context examples 

“Twenty Scottish lives,” they answered together.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No signs that a 'Scottish monarch sleeps below.'

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It has been described almost exclusively in families of Scottish origin.

(Multiple Self Healing Epithelioma of Ferguson-Smith, NCI Thesaurus)

And yet I cannot think that any Scottish or French rovers could land in such force as to beleaguer the fortalice.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And so say I,” cried the Scottish earl; “for they do not know that there is any enemy within thirty long leagues of them.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Long did Alleyne bear the scene in mind—the knot of knights in their dull leaden-hued armor, the ruddy visage of Sir Oliver, the craggy features of the Scottish earl, the shining scalp of Sir Nigel, with the dense ring of hard, bearded faces and the long brown heads of the horses, all topped and circled by the beetling cliffs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)