1syllable
scout
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Definitions ofscout
1noun
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A college servant (in Oxford, England or Yale or Harvard), originally implying a male servant, attending to (usually several) students or undergraduates in a variety of ways that includes cleaning; corresponding to the duties of a gyp or possibly bedder at Cambridge University; and at Dublin, a skip.
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- (up until 1920s) A fighter aircraft.
- Term of address for a man or boy.
1verb
- To explore a wide terrain, as if on a search; to reconnoiter.
- To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
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