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scop

/ʃɒp/

scop noun: a poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.

Noun (1)

scop (plural scops)

  1. (historical) A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
    • The kings and nobles often attached to them a scop, or maker of verses. […] The banquet was not complete without the songs of the scop. While the warriors ate the flesh of boar and deer and warmed their blood with horns of foaming ale, the scop, standing where the blaze from a pile of logs...1900, Reuben Post Halleck, History of English Literature, quoted in 1927, Thomas Tapper, Percy Goetschius, Essentials in Music History, 2011, Facsimile Edition, page 42
    • Jealous and full of anger, they leered as the soft song of the scop praised the All-Powerful.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20

Noun (2) capitalized: SCOP

SCOP (plural SCOPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of seasonal coefficient of performance.

Examples of scop in a sentence

  • The scop was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.[…]The Lament of Deor tells a different story.1991, R. N. Sarkar, A Topical Survey of English Literature, India, page 1:
  • The beginning of the poem introduces a speech by Widsith (lines 1—4a), with an accompanying account of his life and travels as a scop:[…].2011, Hugh Magennis, The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature, Cambridge University Press, page 43:

Forms of scop

pluralscops
pluralSCOPs

Origin of scop

Learned borrowing from Old English sċop.

Words that rhyme with scop

44 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about scop

What does scop mean?
Scop means a poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
How do you use scop in a sentence?
The scop was moving from place to place to find a Lord in his desolate mind here.[…]The Lament of Deor tells a different story.
What part of speech is scop?
Scop is a noun.
How do you pronounce scop?
Scop is pronounced /ʃɒp/.
What is the plural of scop?
The plural of scop is scops.

Words near scop in the dictionary

  1. scooting up
  2. scoots
  3. scoots over
  4. scoots up
  5. scooty
  6. scop
  7. scopa
  8. scopae
  9. scopaesthesia
  10. scopal
  11. scoparil

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