Dictionary Entry
scout
scout is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A swift sailing boat. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A swift sailing boat.
- 2noun
A projecting rock.
- 3transitive verb
To reject with contempt, as something absurd; to treat with ridicule; to flout; as, to scout an idea or an apology.
- 4noun
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information of the movements and condition of an enemy.
- 5noun
A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
- 6noun
A fielder in a game for practice.
- 7noun
The act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- 8transitive verb
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
- 9transitive verb
To pass over or through, as a scout; to reconnoiter; as, to scout a country.
- 10intransitive verb
To go on the business of scouting, or watching the motions of an enemy; to act as a scout.
- 11noun
a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- 12noun
someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
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- 13noun
someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- 14noun
a Boy Scout or Girl Scout
- 15verb
explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
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