scot
part of speech
noun (a Scot, Scots); related: Scots, Scottish, Scotch; phrase: scot-free
meaning for a pupil
1) A Scot is a person from Scotland. tree →
2) (history) The Scots were a people from Ireland who settled in western Scotland about 1,500 years ago and gave Scotland its name. tree →
3) "Scot-free" means without being punished or harmed; the old word "scot" meant a tax or payment. tree →
sense in the lessons
In geography and history lessons on the UK, a Scot is someone from Scotland, one of the four nations of the UK. Famous Scots include Robert the Bruce and Alexander Graham Bell. The everyday phrase "get off scot-free" has nothing to do with Scotland; it comes from not paying the "scot" tax.
examples
- My uncle is a Scot from Glasgow. tree →
- The Scots won the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. tree →
- Mary Queen of Scots was a famous ruler. tree →
- The thief got off scot-free because nobody saw him. tree →
- A Scot invented the telephone: Alexander Graham Bell. tree →
- Many Scots wear a kilt at weddings. tree →
- The Scots were a people who came from Ireland long ago. tree →
- And yet Kai Lykke went scot-free." tree →
note
Capital S for the person: a Scot, the Scots. Adjective for things from Scotland: Scottish. "Scotch" is used for whisky and some foods (Scotch egg); many Scots dislike being called "Scotch". "Scots" is also the name of a language spoken in Scotland. "Scot-free" is not about Scotland.
In the corpora
- "Stop." Just one word?» (ken means know in Scots).
- In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.
- In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued.
- Lily's mum checks that «sketchy_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post.
- He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «scot» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.