Scott

plural Scotts · alternative Scot · alternative Scottie · alternative Scotty

1. countableAn 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

2. countableA male given name transferred from the surname.

   1 more example

   Then there’s Billy Long, a former auctioneer and Republican congressman who Trump nominated and was confirmed less than two months ago to head the Internal Revenue Service, with “little background in tax policy beyond promoting a fraud-riddled tax credit”. Long has already been fired after clashing with the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent. Long was the sixth person to head the IRS this year.

   2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025

3. A placename:
   1. countableuncountableA municipality of La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.
   2. countableuncountableA town in the Rural Municipality of Tramping Lake, No. 380, Saskatchewan, Canada.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lonoke County and Pulaski County, Arkansas.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Georgia.
   5. countableuncountableA small unincorporated community in Van Buren Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
   6. countableuncountableA city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Cole County, Missouri.
   8. countableuncountableA town in Cortland County, New York.
   9. countableuncountableA village in Paulding County and Van Wert County, Ohio.
   10. countableuncountableA former unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia.
   11. countableuncountableA town in Brown County, Wisconsin.
   12. countableuncountableA small town in Burnett County, Wisconsin.
   13. countableuncountableA small town in Columbia County, Wisconsin.
   14. countableuncountableA small town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
   15. countableuncountableA town in Lincoln County, Wisconsin.
   16. countableuncountableA small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
   17. countableuncountableA town in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
   18. countableuncountableA number of townships in the United States, listed under Scott Township.

plural Scotts · alternative Scot · alternative Scottie · alternative Scotty

1. CanadaUShobbiesThe Scott catalogue of postage stamps.

alternative Scot · alternative Scottie · alternative Scotty

1. alternativeAlternative form of great Scott.

   “Why, I have to find work for the thirty thousand that comes out of the coal, haven't I?” “Scott, what a head! I never thought of that. How are you getting along? Where have you arrived?”

   1903, Mark Twain, The $30,000 Bequest