scout
Plural: scouts
Noun
- a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An 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 or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- A fighter aircraft.
- A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- A term of address for a man or boy.
- A swift sailing boat.
- The guillemot.
Verb
Verb Forms: scouted, scouting, scouts
- To observe or explore for information or advantage.
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
- To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search.
- To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
- To reject with contempt.
- To reject the ideas or beliefs of (a person).
- To scoff.
- To pour forth a liquid forcibly, especially excrement; to cause a liquid to gush.
Examples
- Always SCOUT the board for potential triple-word scores before making a move.
- to scout an idea or an apology
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English scout, scoult, from Old French escoute (“action of listening”), verbal noun from escouter (“to listen, heed”), from Latin auscultō (“to listen”). The verb comes from the noun.
Synonyms
guide, lookout, lookout man, pathfinder, picket, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, sentinel, sentry, spotter, talent scout, watch, espial, espy, survey
Scrabble Score: 7
scout: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscout: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scout: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary