Definitions for SCOTS

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SCOTS Scots

Spelling: [skots]

IPA: /skɒts/

Scots is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in SCOTS (cosst).

Definitions for SCOTS

noun

1. Also called Scottish. the English language as spoken in Scotland. Compare Scots Gaelic.
2. a payment or charge.
3. one's share of a payment or charge.
4. an assessment or tax.
5. a native or inhabitant of Scotland.
6. one of an ancient Gaelic people who came from northern Ireland about the 6th century a.d. and settled in the northwestern part of Great Britain, and after whom Scotland was named.

adjective

1. Scottish (def 1).

Origin of SCOTS

1325-75; syncopated form of Scottis, Middle English, variant (north) of Scottish

Examples for SCOTS

This salient was occupied by the Scots and the Coldstream Guards.

Japanese distillers often use a combination of different types of stills and different casks, whereas the Scots cannot.

Outnumbered five to one in Britain, Scots made up 60 percent of the merchants in Bengal, Calcutta and Madras.

To the Scots mind it is a perplexity how prayer and reading should ever seem one.

And he runs more risk of shooting than an English or Scots steward.

The Scots are proud of their nobility, alliance to the crown, and logical subtleties.

"I have heard that the Scots are good men of war," said Hordle John.

After the postwar disintegration of the British Empire, Scots curiously disassociated themselves with the period altogether.

“Scots better people than to be dependants of London,” he wrote last week.

And far from being secondary partners, Scots featured disproportionately in overseas imperial exploitation.