scouts
/skaʊts/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.77 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society http://www.scout.org/.
name
Any of the national Scouts organizations.
Example Sentences
- "Lord Baden-Powell of England is generally given credit for founding the Scouts. There is no doubt he founded the Scout movement in England along military […]"
- "In that year Percy Everett suggested that to prevent the Scouts being squeezed out (as they might be if cadet training were to become compulsory for all boys) […]"
- "Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts in 1907 so that young men might put military and colonial frontier discipline to work in suburban peacetime."
- "Baden-Powell did not himself write animal stories, but when he decided to form an organisation for younger boys, modelled on the Scouts, […]"
- "The most common criterion of effectiveness quoted from within the Scout Movement is that of the large number of former Scouts who become successful in later [life …]"
- "The Scouts promise to make a real effort to help Mrs Tuttleby find a Scout group which will appoint her as a leader with a restricted warrant."