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Scottish

Scottish

120 2.3
About Scotland, its people, or culture
  • adjective
  • /ˈskɒtɪʃ/
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  • Dougie Gillman is your average Scottish copper.
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Scottish universities
  • Scottish teachers

Like my grand, my grandparents are Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, right?

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Examples

  • Every summer, the Royal family just decamped to the Scottish Highlands, and it's actually said that it's one of the Queen's favorite places to be.

  • I think the idea of taking Scottish salmon to a foreign country is absolutely absurd.

  • Over the last six years we have helped thousands of Scottish residents become debt free.

  • Along with everyone else in this Scottish town, the boys thought he was weird in his ways.

  • Everybody knows how awesome the Scottish banking system was.

  • Do you like my Scottish accent?

  • A lobster boat went down off the Scottish coast.

  • Some young girl cousins in traditional Scottish costume dance the sword dance along to Scotland the Brave.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The rain stops as the sun sets; the Scottish mists lift, revealing stunning natural beauty.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • My family's Christmas is the best with traditional Scottish games, music, and crafts.

Synonyms

Scots
vsScottish
6.2

Relating to Scotland, its people, culture, or languages

is broader, applying to all national culture and languages
Caledonian
vsScottish
8.3

Relating to Scotland, especially its Highlands, or to things from Scotland

is more general, covering any region of the country and its people

Compounds

3 5.8

A way of pronouncing English used by people from Scotland

A small, sturdy dog with long black hair and erect ears

A Celtic language spoken in Scotland, mainly in the Highlands and islands, different from Irish Gaelic

A person who lives in the Highlands of Scotland and keeps local traditions

A mountainous area in northern Scotland with lakes, castles, and traditional dress

A form of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland with its own words and sounds

A person from the Lowlands area of Scotland

A southern low-lying area of Scotland with rolling hills and farms

A very large, tall dog with rough fur bred in Scotland to hunt deer

Stories and beliefs from Scotland about monsters and fairies that people pass down over generations

A maple tree with pale flaky grey bark and leaves with five lobes that turn yellow in autumn

A lively Scottish folk dance with fast music and round gliding steps

Surface Forms

Scottish positive

Morphology

Scottish = Scotland (transparent) = Scotland + ish

Formed regularly from the place name 'Scotland' with the productive adjectival suffix '-ish', so the meaning 'relating to Scotland' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Scottish comes from the name Scotland, which itself comes from the people called the Scots, so the word means 'from Scotland' or about its people, culture, or languages.