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# scot

«scot» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person from Scotland** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a Scot, Scots); related: Scots, Scottish, Scotch; phrase: scot-free

### meaning for a pupil

1) A Scot is a person from Scotland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#m1)

2) (history) The Scots were a people from Ireland who settled in western Scotland about 1,500 years ago and gave Scotland its name. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#m2)

3) "Scot-free" means without being punished or harmed; the old word "scot" meant a tax or payment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons on the UK, a Scot is someone from Scotland, one of the four nations of the UK. Famous Scots include Robert the Bruce and Alexander Graham Bell. The everyday phrase "get off scot-free" has nothing to do with Scotland; it comes from not paying the "scot" tax.

### examples

- My uncle is a Scot from Glasgow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x1)
- The Scots won the battle of Bannockburn in 1314. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x2)
- Mary Queen of Scots was a famous ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x3)
- The thief got off scot-free because nobody saw him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x4)
- A Scot invented the telephone: Alexander Graham Bell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x5)
- Many Scots wear a kilt at weddings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x6)
- The Scots were a people who came from Ireland long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x7)
- And yet Kai Lykke went scot-free." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/#x8)

### note

Capital S for the person: a Scot, the Scots. Adjective for things from Scotland: Scottish. "Scotch" is used for whisky and some foods (Scotch egg); many Scots dislike being called "Scotch". "Scots" is also the name of a language spoken in Scotland. "Scot-free" is not about Scotland.

### In the corpora

- ["Stop." Just one word?» (ken means know in Scots).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/9/)
- [In Scots, "dreich" describes grey, damp, gloomy weather, and "pure" can mean very.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/41-describing-senses-showing-and-precise-words/14/)
- [In Scots «pure sound» means really nice and a «nippy sweetie» is someone sharp-tongued.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/468-nice-alone-mean-in-a-group/17/)
- [Lily's mum checks that «sketchy_scot» is a real girl in Inverness, and the girls swap drawings by post.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/480-the-friend-in-the-game-you-never-met-and-the-fake-friend/20/)
- [He's raging (Scots for furious), then starts doing chores to earn a new one.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/490-comfortable-families-enough-but-not-everything/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scot» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scot/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.