Scouts

See also: scouts

English

Noun

Scouts

1. plural of Scout

Proper noun

Scouts

2. 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 [1].
   • 1976, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton:

     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 […]

   • 2001, Tim Jeal, Baden-Powell:

     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) […]

   • 2004, Philippa Levine, Gender and Empire:

     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.

   • 2006, Tess Cosslett, Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction 1786-1914:

     Baden-Powell did not himself write animal stories, but when he decided to form an organisation for younger boys, modelled on the Scouts, […]

3. Any of the national Scouts organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America.
   • 1961, The Australian Journal of Social Issues, Australian Council of Social Service, page 46:

     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 …]

   • 2000, Rannveig Traustadóttir, Kelley Johnson (editors), Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World:

     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.

   • 2002, Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts, Gabriella Trifiletti, Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries:

     Civic projects were sponsored through service clubs such as Rotary, Apex and Lions. Children might attend Brownies or Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. […] By the 1960s Australian cultural activities were also being put on an international footing.

   • 2004, Anne E. Blair, Ruxton: A Biography:

     The Scouts also took him further afield than his native Melbourne. At the end of 1938, he sailed to Sydney for the Scout Jamboree on the Canberra.

   • 2004, Dr Winsome Roberts, Brian Galligan, Australian Citizenship, page 95:

     […] and in 2002, the Guides, Scouts, Returned and Serves League and Surf Life Saving clubs all sponsored Harmony Day.

   • 1969, John Buchan, Canadian Occasions: addresses, page 148:

     […] wherever I have gone […] I have found companies of Scouts inspired by the true Scout tradition […]

   • 2002, Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, page 48:

     […] in the spring of 1919, a number of local Scouts somehow got hold of a few guns and assisted the Polish soldiers […]
     Besides such common scouting activities as hikes and summer camps, the Scouts participated in various Polish national festivals […]

4. The Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the former Rhodesian Army.
   • 1982, Ron Reid-Daly, Peter Stiff, Selous Scouts: Top Secret War:

     […] Turning the tables, the Scouts bit the biter by blowing up […]

   • 1986, Peter Abbott, Philip Botham, Modern African Wars:

     Column strength never exceeded 72 men, and the results achieved were out of all proportion. In alone the Scouts notched up 1,257 kills, only 180 of them internal.

   • 1994, Leroy Thompson, SAS: Great Britain's Elite Special Air Service:

     As the terrorists in Rhodesia relied heavily on letters for communication, the Scouts often captured a bonanza of intelligence […]

   • 2005, Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer, Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot:

     The Scouts recognised that dead CTs were either abandoned or buried and forgotten, whereas the living wounded presented an unwanted burden […]

Related terms

• (Boy Scouts of America): BSA
• (Scouts Association of Australia): Scouts Australia

Translations

worldwide youth movement

• Finnish: partioliike (fi), partio (fi)
• French: scoutisme (fr) m
• Italian: scautismo (it) m

members of that movement collectively

• Finnish: partiolaiset (fi) pl
• French: scouts (fr) m pl

Anagrams

• costus, SCOTUS, Scotus, custos