mascot
/ˈmæsˌkɒt/US/ˈmæsˌkɑːt/
mascot noun: something thought to bring good luck.
Noun
mascot (plural mascots)
- Something thought to bring good luck.
- I keep this red stone as a lucky mascot and always put it on my desk in exams.
- Something, especially a person or animal, used to symbolize a sports team, company, organization or other group.
- Tommy the Tyke is the mascot of Barnsley FC.
- A person engaged by an organization to portray its mascot in costume.
- He's been working as a mascot at local hockey games.
- A personality type characterized by reliance on humor and positivity to wish away conflicts and attempt to defuse potentially violent situations.
Verb
mascot (third-person singular simple present mascots, present participle mascoting, simple past and past participle mascoted)
- To act as a mascot (for).
- The seniors were “mascoted” by two little girls dressed in green dresses […]1908, The Mount Holyoke, volume 18, page 533
- Unlike the popular, sunny Van Zelst, McLoon was a sassy, hard-boiled kid who had been mascoting for various athletic teams and prize fighters […]2012, Norman L. Macht, Connie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931, page 74
Proper noun capitalized: Mascot
Mascot
- A suburb in southeastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
mascot meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
mascot in Hindi
- शुभंकर, मास्कोट, मास्कट
mascot in Tamil
- சின்னம், முகடி, முகணி, முகதி, முகப்பம், நற்றாளம்
mascot in Marathi
- शुभंकर, मास्कॉट
mascot in Urdu
- تعویز, باعث برکت چيز, سعد, نصیب آور, بخت آور, گنڈا
More languagesFewer languages
- mascot in Bengali
- সৌভাগ্য আনয়নকারী কল্পিত ব্যক্তি, প্রাণী, বস্তু
- mascot in Telugu
- మస్కట్, మాస్కాట్, మాస్కట్
- mascot in Malayalam
- ഭാഗ്യദാതാവ്, ഭാഗ്യം തരുന്ന മൃഗം, ഭാഗ്യവസ്തു
- mascot in Kannada
- ಸಯ್ಪುಗೆ
- mascot in Punjabi
- ਮਾਸਕੌਟ, ਮੈਸਕੌਟ
- mascot in Gujarati
- માસ્કોટ
- mascot in Odia
- ମାସ୍କଟ
- mascot in Nepali
- मास्कोट, म्यासकट
- mascot in Vietnamese
- linh vật
Examples of mascot in a sentence
- He has a wide selection of fanwear, all emblazoned with the Lions' mascot.
- The Irish wolfhound is the official mascot of The Irish Guards and The Royal Irish Regiment.
- The pelican was my high school's mascot, taken from the crest of our school's founding family.
Forms of mascot
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | mascots |
| alternative form (archaic) | mascotte |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | mascots |
| present participle | mascoting |
| past participle | mascoted |
| past | mascoted |
Origin of mascot
Borrowed from French mascotte, from Occitan mascòta (“sortilege”), feminine diminutive of masca (“witch”), from Old Occitan masca, from Medieval Latin masca (“specter, nightmare”). More at mask.
Words formed from mascot
Questions about mascot
- What does mascot mean?
- Mascot means something thought to bring good luck.
- What is mascot in Hindi?
- Mascot in Hindi is शुभंकर, मास्कोट, मास्कट. See Mascot meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is mascot?
- Mascot can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce mascot?
- Mascot is pronounced /ˈmæsˌkɒt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mascot?
- The plural of mascot is mascots.
Words near mascot in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: mascot (page history and authors); Mascot (page history and authors); mascot (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mascot (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mascot (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mascot (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mascot (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mascot (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mascot (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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