Scots

(skŏts)

adj.

Scottish. See Usage Note at Scottish.

The language traditionally spoken by people living in the Lowlands of Scotland. Scots is sometimes classified as a variety of English and sometimes as a separate language.

[Middle English scottis, variant of scottisc, Scottish, from Scotte, sing. of Scottes, Scotsmen; see Scot.]

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Scots

(skɒts)

adj

1. (Peoples) of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their English dialects, or their Gaelic language

2. (Languages) of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their English dialects, or their Gaelic language

3. (Placename) of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their English dialects, or their Gaelic language

(Languages) any of the English dialects spoken or written in Scotland. See also Lallans

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Scots

(skɒts)

n.

1. any of the dialects of English spoken historically in the Lowlands of Scotland: influenced increasingly by the English of S England since the late 16th century.

adj.

2. Scottish.

[1325–75; syncopated form of Scottis]

usage: See Scotch.

Scots

A Celtic people from northern Ireland colonizing Argyll in the 5th century and giving their name to Scotland.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Scots - the dialect of English used in Scotland Scots English, Scottish English, English language - an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries Lallans, Scottish Lallans - a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland Scotland - one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts
Adj.	1.	Scots - of or relating to or characteristic of Scotland or its people or culture or its English dialect or Gaelic language; "Scots Gaelic"; "the Scots community in New York"; "`Scottish' tends to be the more formal term as in `The Scottish Symphony' or `Scottish authors' or `Scottish mountains'"; "`Scotch' is in disfavor with Scottish people and is used primarily outside Scotland except in such frozen phrases as `Scotch broth' or `Scotch whiskey' or `Scotch plaid'" Scotch, Scottish

Scots

adjective Scottish, Caledonian Scots law differs in many respects from English law.

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Translations

اِسْكُتْلانْدِيّ

skotskýskotština

skotsk

schottisch

σκωτικά σκωτσέζικος

escocés escocesesScots

skotlantilainen

écossaisscots

škotski

skót nyelvjárás

scozzese

スコットランドの

스코틀랜드의

škótskyškótština

skotsk

เกี่ยวกับสกอตแลนด์

İskoç

thuộc Scotland

苏格兰的

Scots

[skɒts]

A. ADJ → escocés
a Scots accent → un acento escocés
Scots pine → pino m escocés

B. N (Ling) → escocés m

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Scots

[ˈskɒts]

adj → écossais(e)
a Scots accent → un accent écossais

n (= language) → écossais

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Scots

adj → schottisch

n (= dialect) → Schottisch nt; the Scots (= people) → die Schotten pl

Scots

Scots law

n → schottisches Recht

Scotsman

n → Schotte m

Scots pine

n → Föhre f, → (gemeine) Kiefer

Scotswoman

n → Schottin f

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Scots

[skɒts] adj → scozzese

Scots

→ اِسْكُتْلانْدِيّ skotský skotsk schottisch σκωτσέζικος escoceses skotlantilainen écossais škotski scozzese スコットランドの 스코틀랜드의 Schots skotsk szkocki escocês шотландский skotsk เกี่ยวกับสกอตแลนด์ İskoç thuộc Scotland 苏格兰的

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"Our business is with the Scots," quoth the elder; "for it was the Scots who cut off daddy's string fingers and his thumbs."

"You have borne arms against the Scots, then?" he asked.

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Nicholson himself had a great fund of humour, of the Scots order - intellectual, turning on the observation of men; his own character, for instance - if he could have seen it in another - would have been a rare feast to him; but his son's empty guffaws over a broken plate, and empty, almost light-hearted remarks, struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

What these are (and in spite of their grim name they are quite innocent) no array of terms would render thinkable to the merely English intelligence; but to the Scot they often prove unctuously nourishing, and Mr.

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The company consisted of people of several nations, but there were above sixty of them merchants or inhabitants of Moscow, though of them some were Livonians; and to our particular satisfaction, five of them were Scots, who appeared also to be men of great experience in business, and of very good substance.

One of the Scots merchants of Moscow happened to be amongst us; and as soon as he heard the horn, he told us that we had nothing to do but to charge them without loss of time; and drawing us up in a line, he asked if we were resolved.

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"Not much; the words of my class poem kept running through my head, and the accompaniments of the songs; and worse than anything, Mary Queen of Scots' prayer in Latin; it seemed as if

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Wi the Scots lords at his feit." And now, just to end this chapter, let me give you one more poem.

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From 1760 to 1763 Macpherson, then a young Highland Scots schoolmaster, published in rapid succession certain fragments of Gaelic verse and certain more extended works in poetical English prose which, he asserted, were part of the originals, discovered by himself, and translations, of the poems of the legendary Scottish bard Ossian, of the third Christian century.

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Beyond the river was an advanced post belonging to Monk's army, which watched the enemy; it was composed of one hundred and fifty Scots. They had swum across the Tweed, and, in case of attack, were to recross it in the same manner, giving the alarm; but as there was no post at that spot, and as Lambert's soldiers were not so prompt at taking to the water as Monk's were, the latter appeared not to have much uneasiness on that side.

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Kennedy's countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"; his stature was above six feet; full of grace and easy movement, he yet seemed gifted with herculean strength; a face embrowned by the sun; eyes keen and black; a natural air of daring courage; in fine, something sound, solid, and reliable in his entire person, spoke, at first glance, in favor of the bonny Scot.

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You only know the shell of a Scot until you have entered his home circle; in his office, in clubs, at social gatherings where you and he seem to be getting on so well he is really a house with all the shutters closed and the door locked.

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