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Scottish
[ skot-ish ]
noun
- the people of Scotland.
Scottish
/ ˈskɒtɪʃ /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Scotland, its people, their Gaelic language, or their English dialect
noun
- the Scottishthe Scottish functioning as plural the Scots collectively
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Other Words From
- Scottish·ly adverb
- Scottish·ness noun
- half-Scottish adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
The idea of black Bond caused Limbaugh to exclaim on his show last week that Bond was “white and Scottish, period.”
Auld lang syne” is Scottish-Gaelic for “old long since,” or, more idiomatically, “days gone by” or “time long past.
Imagine driving through the Scottish countryside, rolling through a vast landscape of green hills and cloudy skies.
Scottish farmers had already been making whisky in the area for centuries with their surplus barley.
Their legendary barrel aging program is unique, even among Scottish distilleries, for its range of natural color expressions.
A border feud at Reedsquair, between the English and Scottish marchmen, in which the former were completely beaten.
Andrew Michael Ramsay, a Scottish historian and philosopher, died.
Battle of Nisbeth, between the English and Scottish forces, in which 10,000 of the latter were slain.
Those were the days when between the Scottish railway companies the keenest rivalry and the bitterest competition existed.
Edward, while busily arranging 'to cross seas' to Flanders, was also pushing forward preparations for a 'Scottish War.'
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