Scots

[ skots ]

noun
  1. Also called Scottish. the English language as spoken in Scotland.: Compare Scottish Gaelic.

Origin of Scots

1
1325–75; syncopated form of Scottis,Middle English, variant (north) of Scottish

confusables note For Scots

See Scotch.

Words that may be confused with Scots

Words Nearby Scots

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How to use Scots in a sentence

  • At the same time he imperiously insisted on the submission of such Scots as had not yet joined him.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
  • He had received to the peace some complaisant Scots whose lands or dwellings lay on his northward route.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
  • Valence seems to have been ready to accept Bruce's challenge, but to have been dissuaded by his Scots friends.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
  • Meantime this fatal administrative weakness was greatly counterbalanced by the political divisions among the Scots.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison
  • The garrison were making merry in the hall, when the Scots burst in upon them with the Douglas war-cry.

    King Robert the Bruce | A. F. Murison

British Dictionary definitions for Scots

Scots

/ (skɒts) /


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

noun
  1. any of the English dialects spoken or written in Scotland: See also Lallans

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