Scots

Definitions: Scots

Scots

Adjective

1. 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'".

Noun

1. The dialect of English used in Scotland.

Date "Scots" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Scots \Scots\, adjective. [For older Scottis Scottish. See Scottish.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Biographical Satire	SCOTS, Mary Queen of, a Scotch lady who is said to have been beautiful, who fell in love, and was one of the few women whose less attractive sister got the better of her. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The Scots tribe originated from Ireland, from the now-called counties Antrim and Down.

In 500 AD, under King Fergus the Scots invaded Argyll and established the realm known as Dál Riata (a.k.a Dalriada) in the Pictish lands, known as Caledonian by the Romans. However, the relationship between these two peoples begins earlier: around 300 AD when the Romans recorded almost 300 frontier attacks by two peoples: the "Picti" and the "Scotti".

While the Romans represented a common enemy the Picts and Scots supported each other, however, with the Romans' departure the two sides were left to compete with each other for power and territory. Wars between Caledonia and Dalriada were numerous between 300 AD and 840 AD - the Picts frequently coming out on top; Dalriada often being ruled by the Picts.

In the early 9th century, when the Vikings started plundering along the coastline of Caledonia and neighbouring countries the Pictish kingdom found itself facing enemies on two fronts. After successfully defeating the Scots, the Picts strength was severely weakened by a major battle with the Vikings in 839. Caledonia went on to suffer several quick successions of Kings.

After the death of the king of Dalriada, Alpin Mac Eochaid, his son Ciniod Mac Alpin, Kenneth I in 843, laid claim to the throne of Caledonia through maternal bloodlines, and thereby united both kingdoms, becoming King of Alba.

See also: MacAlpin's Treason

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Other definitions include:

Scots (adj) - relating to, or characteristic of Scotland or its people
Scots (noun) - a language of Scotland

See also: Scots language

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SCOTS	English	System checkout test set	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Scots

Synonyms: Scotch (adj), Scots English (n), Scottish (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The Germans and the Italians couldn't get rid of us. There is absolutely no reason why we should surrender to the Scots. (Tea with Mussolini; writing credit: John Mortimer; Franco Zeffirelli) The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)
Movie/TV Titles	Queen of Scots Mary (1971) The Hot Scots (1948) Scots Grey (1899)
Song Titles	Amazing Grace (performing artist: Royal Scots Dragoon Guards)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Mary Queen of Scots (reference) Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots (reference) The Code Book: The Evolution of Secrecy from Mary, Queen of Scots to Quantum Cryptography (reference) The Scots Dialect Dictionary (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Scots Law Times (reference) Scots Law Times Cd-rom (reference) Scots Link (reference) Scots Link Index (reference) Scots Magazine (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Mary, Queen of Scots (reference) Women in History 2-Pack - Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Brave Hearts: New Scots Music, A Narada Collection (reference) Classic Scots Ballads (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Falmouth, Va. Lord Abinger (William F. Scarlett, 3d Baron Abinger, Lt. Col. Scots Fusilier Guards) and group at headquarters, Army of the Potomac.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mary, Queen of Scots, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left; castle in background.Credit: Library of Congress.
	It's his oil : so why are 40,000 Scots kids on part-time education?.Credit: Library of Congress.		It's her oil : so why are many Scots old folk cold and undernourished?.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Mary Queen Of Scots	No one provokes me with impunity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Magna Carta	1215	We will do towards Alexander, king of Scots, concerning the return of his sisters and his hostages, and concerning his franchises, and his right, in the same manner as we shall do towards our owher barons of England, unless it ought to be otherwise according to the charters which we hold from William his father, formerly king of Scots; and this shall be according to the judgment of his peers in our court. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Scots" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 59.26% of the time. "Scots" is used about 1,812 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	59.26%	1,074	7,000
Adjective (general or positive)	33.74%	611	10,546
Noun (proper)	6.89%	125	28,650
Lexical Verb (-s form)	0.11%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	1,812	N/A

Expressions using "Scots": Mary Queen of Scots ♦ Scots English ♦ Scots Gaelic ♦ Scots heather ♦ scots pine. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Scots": scots-american, scots-born, scots-dutch, scots-english, scots-irish, scots-italian, scots-registered, scots-speaking.
	Ending with "Scots": anglo-scots, non-scots.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "Scots"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		skocisht. (various references)

Bulgarian		шотландски диалект, шотландски (caledonian, scotch, scottish). (various references)

Czech		skotský (caledonian, scotch, scottish). (various references)

Danish		skovfyr (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), fyrrestammelus (common pine aphid, eurasian pine aphid, pine adelgid, scots pine adelges, woolly pine aphid). (various references)

Dutch		silvesterpijn (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), Schotse spar (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), pijnboom (Baltic redwood, pine, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), mastboom (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), grove spar (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), grove den (Baltic redwood, jaw, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), greneboom (Baltic redwood, red deal, red fir, Scots pine, yellow deal), dennewolluis (common pine aphid, eurasian pine aphid, pine adelgid, scots pine adelges, woolly pine aphid). (various references)

Finnish		skotlannin kieli (Scotch). (various references)

French		écossais (scot, scotch, scotchman, scottish). (various references)

German		schottisch (scotch, scottish). (various references)

Greek		σκωτικόσ (scotch, scottish). (various references)

Hungarian		skót (die-hard, plaid, sandy, Sawney, Scot, Scotch, Scotsman, Scotswoman, Scottish). (various references)

Italian		scozzese (Scot, scotchman, Scotsman, scotswoman, scottish). (various references)

Manx		Baarle Albinagh (Anglo-Scottish, Anglo-Scottish language, Lallans). (various references)

Pig Latin		otsscay

Portuguese		escocês (Gael, highlander, Sawney, Scot, scotch, scotchman, Scotsman, scottish). (various references)

Romanian		scoţian (caledonian, scot, scotch, scotchman, scotsman, scottish). (various references)

Russian		шотландский диалект, шотландский (caledonian, scotch, scottish). (various references)

Scottish		sgillinn (a penny, penny, penny = a shilling Scots : sgillinn Shasunnach), plang (a plack - a Scots coin), marg (a merk: from the English mark, merk = 13/4 Scots : marg). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dragonski puk, škotski jezik (scotch, scottish), škotski (caledonian, scotch, scottish). (various references)

Spanish		escocés (plaid, scot, scotch, scotchman, scotsman, Scottie, scottish). (various references)

Swedish		skotska (scotch, scotchwoman, scotswoman, scottish), skotsk (Scotch, Scottish). (various references)

Turkish		iskoçya (north britian, scotch), iskoç lehçesi (scotch), iskoç (caledonian, scotch). (various references)

Ukranian		шотландський діалект (scottish), шотландський (caledonian), шотландці (scottish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "Scots": ascots, escots, mascots, wainscots. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Scots" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csos, Scholtes, Scioto, Scoms, Scota, Scotta, Scutts, Sectos. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Scots" (pronounced skÄ"ts)
4	-k Ä" t s	cots.
3	-Ä" t s	allots, blots, Botts, clots, dots, hots, knots, lats, lots, lottes, mots, motts, plots, Plotz, pots, rots, shots, Shotts, slots, spots, squats, tots, trots, Watts, yachts.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: costs.
	Words within the letters "c-o-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: coss, cost, cots, scot, sots, toss.
	-2 letters: cos, cot, sos, sot.
	-3 letters: os, so, to.
	Words containing the letters "c-o-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: ascots, cestos, coasts, cosets, cosset, custos, escots, scoots, scouts, stocks, stoics.
	+2 letters: accosts, castors, closest, closets, cohosts, consist, corsets, cosiest, cosmist, cossets, costars, costers, customs, escorts, locusts, mascots, nostocs, oocysts, scoters, scotias, scouths, sectors, sitcoms, sockets, stuccos, tocsins, tussock.
	+3 letters: borschts, castoffs, cestodes, cestoids, cistrons, coarsest, coassist, coasters, coatless, coesites, coexists, coituses, combusts, composts, congests, consents, consists, consorts, consults, contests, contuses, copyists, corslets, cosmists, cosseted, costards, costless, costrels, costumes, countess, crosscut, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, crustose, custodes, cystoids, cytosols, gnostics, isotachs, lactoses, massicot, oculists, offcasts, otocysts, outcasts, outclass, outcross, postdocs, postsync, potassic, prosects, restocks, sacatons, sciolist, scooters, scotches, scotomas, scotties, scouters, scrotums, seacoast, seascout, sections, sickouts, solecist, solicits, solstice, stockers, stockish, stockist, stoicism, stomachs, stuccoes, suctions, surcoats, systolic, topcross, tussocks, tussocky.
	+4 letters: accustoms, acoustics, acrostics, acrotisms, agnostics, ancestors, associate, atamascos, autocross, backstops, bisectors, bitstocks, buckshots, cabestros, cabrestos, canoeists, canonists, capstones, cassoulet, castratos, cathouses, cessation, chassepot, chitosans, choosiest, cloisters, closeouts, coassists, coastings, coastwise, coatdress, coattests, cockshuts, cohostess, coistrels, coistrils, colistins, colitises, colonists, colorists, concisest, conquests, consisted, constants, construes, contrasts, copastors, corselets, cortisols, coscripts, cosecants, cosmetics, cosseting, costliest, costumers, countless, creosotes, croissant, crosscuts, crosslets, crosstalk, crossties, crosstown, crowsteps, cryostats, custodies, customers, customise, cytolyses, cytolysis, cytosines, diestocks, discounts, dissector, domestics, downcasts, dystocias, ecosystem, ectosarcs, endocasts, escargots, eschalots, exorcists, fatstocks, forecasts, fructoses, gunstocks, iotacisms, isosmotic, isostatic, joysticks, linstocks, lobsticks, localists, locksteps, logistics, lopsticks, masochist, massicots, miscounts, monastics, mosaicist, motocross, notecases, obscenest, obscurest, obstacles, obstructs, octopuses, opticists, osculates, ostracise, ostracism, ostracods, ostriches, otoscopes, outcastes, outcurses, outscolds, outscoops, outscores, outscorns, outslicks, overcasts, penstocks, piscators, postcards, postcodes, postcrash, postfaces, postiches, postsyncs, prospects, sanctions, schistose, schizonts, scholiast, sciolists, scotopias, scouthers, scoutings, sculptors, seacoasts, seascouts, secretors, seicentos, selectors, semiotics, setaceous, sheepcots, shortcuts, slotbacks, socialist, societies, softbacks, solecists, solstices, sonicates, sophistic, soutaches, spiccatos, splotches, sporocyst, sprockets, staccatos, statocyst, stickouts, stictions, stoccados, stoccatas, stockades, stockcars, stockfish, stockiest, stockings, stockists, stockpots, stoicisms, stopcocks, stuccoers, subsector, subtonics, subtopics, succotash, testcross, tipstocks, toxicoses, toxicosis, trisomics, tuckshops, viscosity, viscounts, vocalists, wainscots.
	+5 letters: actionless, antecessor, apostacies, ascorbates, associated, associates, astrocytes, autoecisms, bisections, blastocyst, blastodisc, broadcasts, buttstocks, caespitose, caseations, cassoulets, castoreums, castrators, causations, centesimos, cessations, chassepots, chopsticks, choristers, clitorises, cloistress, closestool, closetfuls, coassisted, coastlands, coastlines, coastwards, cocksfoots, collagists, colostrums, colpitises, coltsfoots, columnists, combustors, communists, composites, conscripts, consenters, consistent, consisting, consistory, consonants, conspectus, constables, constrains, constricts, constructs, consulates, consulters, consultors, contesters, contrabass, contusions, cookstoves, copestones, copresents, cornetists, cornstalks, corposants, corsetries, cortisones, coruscates, cosmonauts, costlessly, costliness, costmaries, costumiers, cotrustees, cotterless, countesses, courtesans, courtesies, courtships, courtsides, covertness, cowlstaffs, cowlstaves, crapshoots, crayonists, croissants, crosscourt, crosshatch, crosspatch, crosstalks, crosstrees, croustades, curbstones, curiousest, custodians, customised, customises, customizes, cystocarps, cystoliths, cystoscope, cystoscopy, cytolysins, cytoplasms, decongests, dicrotisms, discomfits, dishcloths, dishclouts, dislocates, dissection, dissectors, dissociate, distichous, doctorless, dustcovers, ecologists, economists, ecosystems, ectoplasms, encomiasts, eroticisms, eroticists, escalators, exocytoses, exocytosis, exoticisms, exoticness, feedstocks, fetoscopes, galactoses, gnosticism, headstocks, holocausts, housecoats, hypocausts, incestuous, inspectors, intercross, isometrics, isooctanes, isopiestic, jockstraps, jocosities, livestocks, locksmiths, masochists, mislocates, mistouches, mosaicists, moustaches, mucosities, muscovites, mustachios, noninsects, nostalgics, obfuscates, objectless, obscurants, obstetrics, occultisms, occultists, ocularists, onomastics, orchestras, orchitises, oscillates, osteoclast, osteocytes, ostracised, ostracises, ostracisms, ostracizes, ostracodes, otoscopies, outclassed, outclasses, outcrossed, outcrosses, outmuscles, outschemes, overstocks, pasticcios, pistachios, poeticisms, postcrises, postcrisis, postscript, postsynced, prosectors, prosecutes, prospectus, psoriatics, psychotics, recordists, resections, rockshafts, rootstocks, roughcasts, sackcloths, sacrosanct, sailcloths, sauceboats, scapegoats, scapolites, scholastic, scholiasts, sciolistic, sclerotics, sclerotins, scolecites, scroggiest, scrootches, scutcheons, secretions, sectionals, seductions, selections, semeiotics, sheepcotes, shortcakes, silicotics, skyrockets, slouchiest, smokestack, socialists, socialites, sociopaths, softcovers, solecistic, solicitors, solicitous, spaceports, speciosity, spectators, sporocysts, sportscast, stanchions, statocysts, statoscope, stickworks, stochastic, stockiness, stockinets, stockpiles, stockrooms, stockyards, stomachers, stomachics, stonechats, stonecrops, subsection, subsectors, subsociety, subtropics, suctorians, suffocates, sugarcoats, superscout, superstock, sycophants, syncopates, tectonisms, telescopes, testaceous, topcrosses, touchiness, townscapes, transsonic, trisectors, vasotocins, vorticisms, vorticists, waistcoats, washcloths, whipstocks, wristlocks.
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