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Scottian

Scottian adjective: of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

Adjective

Scottian (comparative more Scottian, superlative most Scottian)

  1. Of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
    • a Scottian tale of chivalry

Forms of Scottian

comparativemore Scottian
superlativemost Scottian

Origin of Scottian

From Scott + -ian.

Questions about Scottian

What does Scottian mean?
Scottian means of or relating to Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.
What part of speech is Scottian?
Scottian is an adjective.

Words near Scottian in the dictionary

  1. Scott-continuous
  2. Scott-open
  3. Scotten
  4. Scotter
  5. Scotti
  6. Scottian
  7. Scottic
  8. Scotticise
  9. Scotticised
  10. Scotticises
  11. Scotticising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Scottian (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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