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Scott

  • /skɒt/

Sounds like scot, Scot · Rhymes with -ɒt

proper noun Scotts · Scot · Scottie · Scotty

  1. countable An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry. Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.”
  2. countable A male given name transferred from the surname. Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing
  3. countable, uncountable A municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
  4. countable, uncountable A town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lonoke County and Pulaski County, Arkansas.
  6. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia.
  7. countable, uncountable A small unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
  8. countable, uncountable A city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
  9. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
  10. countable, uncountable A town in Cortland County, New York.
  11. countable, uncountable A village in Paulding County and Van Wert County, Ohio.
  12. countable, uncountable A former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
  13. countable, uncountable A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
  14. countable, uncountable A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
  15. countable, uncountable A small town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
  16. countable, uncountable A small town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
  17. countable, uncountable A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
  18. countable, uncountable A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
  19. countable, uncountable A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
  20. countable, uncountable A number of townships in the United States, listed under Scott Township.

noun Scotts · Scot · Scottie · Scotty

  1. Canada, US The Scott catalogue of postage stamps.

interjection Scot · Scottie · Scotty

  1. alternative Alternative form of great Scott “Why, I have to find work for the thirty thousand that comes out of the coal, haven't I?” “Scott, what a head! I never thought of that. How are you getting along? Where have you arrived?”

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ian, elliot, gavin, maxwell, scotty, giles, kilvert, blair, hogarth, saintsbury, foresman, waring, liddell, pirie, lappin, sukkot

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@misc{scott_2026,
  title = {Scott},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scott},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}