scout
pronunciation
How to pronounce scout in British English:
UK [skaʊt]
How to pronounce scout in American English:
US [skaʊt]
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- Noun:
- a person employed to watch for something to happen
- someone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
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- Verb:
- explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody
Word Origin
- scout
- scout: [14] Etymologically, a scout is someone who ‘listens’. For the word goes back ultimately to Latin auscultāre ‘listen’, a derivative of the same base that produced Latin auris ‘ear’ (source of English aural [19] and distantly related to English ear). This passed into Old French as escouter ‘listen’ (its modern descendant is écouter), which English adopted as the verb scout, meaning ‘look about, spy’. The noun, from the French derivative escoute, followed in the 15th century.=> aural, ear
- scout (v.1)
- late 14c., "observe or explore as a scout, travel in search of information," from Old French escouter "to listen, heed" (Modern French écouter), from Latin auscultare "to listen to, give heed to" (see auscultate). Related: Scouted; scouting.
- scout (v.2)
- "to reject with scorn," 1710, earlier "to mock" (c. 1600), of Scandinavian origin (compare Old Norse skuta, skute "to taunt"), probably from a source related to shout (v.). Related: Scouted; scouting; scoutingly.
- scout (n.)
- "person who scouts, one sent out to gain information," 1550s, from scout (v.1). Boy Scout is from 1908. Scout's honor attested from 1908.
Example
- 1. Weather scout is predicting clouds for the whole day .
- 2. The latest advertisement shows tommy howe , an english football scout , visiting west africa in search of players .
- 3. For my girl scout papers , I have an old briefcase to keep all the papers in order , along with a package of crayons , extra paper and spare pencils .
- 4. Future ravens may be able to strike as well as scout .
- 5. Michael was an eagle scout ( urbana troop 6 and explorer post 12 ) , and served in the army in korea during the vietnam era .