Scott
/skɒt/
Scott proper noun: an English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry. Also the alternative form of great Scott.
Proper noun
Scott (countable and uncountable, plural Scotts)
- An English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.
- Renee Walters and Ashley Scott started the campaign to buy Freedom after Walters saw a viral post about buying a town “for the price of a New York apartment.”2020 September 30, Ashley Schwartz-Lavares and Steve Osunsami, “Black Americans are leaving their homes to start their own all-Black communities”, in ABC News
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
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- A municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
- A town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lonoke County and Pulaski County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia.
- A small unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
- A city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
- A town in Cortland County, New York.
- A village in Paulding County and Van Wert County, Ohio.
- A former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
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- A town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
- A town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Scott Township.
Noun
Scott (plural Scotts)
- The Scott catalogue of postage stamps.
Also used as
Scott is also the alternative form of great Scott.
Forms of Scott
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Scotts |
| alternative form | Scot |
| alternative form | Scottie |
| alternative form | Scotty |
| Noun | |
| plural | Scotts |
Words formed from Scott
Phrases with Scott
Words that rhyme with Scott
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- rot
- apricot
- ribat
- bot
- got
- not
- red-hot
- snot
- stot
- tot
- calotte
- jot
- a lot
- allot
- clot
- cot
- fembot
- frot
- mot
- quat
- swot
- white-hot
- begot
- cannot
- forgot
- garrote
- grot
- marotte
- not so hot
- nott
- Nouakchott
- overshot
- piping hot
- scot
- scrot
- sot
- subplot
- swat
- thot
- wot
- yacht
- asquat
- beach ball plot
- besot
- brat
- carotte
- chamotte
- chott
Questions about Scott
- What does Scott mean?
- Scott means an English ethnic surname transferred from the nickname for someone with Scottish ancestry.
- What part of speech is Scott?
- Scott can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Scott?
- Scott is pronounced /skɒt/.
Words near Scott in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Scott (page history and authors). 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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