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BOY SCOUT

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Overview

BOY SCOUT (noun)
  The noun BOY SCOUT has 2 senses:

1. a boy who is a member of the Boy Scoutsplay

2. a man who is considered naiveplay

  Familiarity information: BOY SCOUT used as a noun is rare.


English dictionary: Word details


BOY SCOUT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A boy who is a member of the Boy Scouts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Boy Scout" is a kind of...):

Scout (a Boy Scout or Girl Scout)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Boy Scout"):

Cub Scout (a junior Boy Scout)

Eagle Scout (a Boy Scout who has earned many merit badges)

rover; scouter (an adult member of the Boy Scouts movement)

Sea Scout (a Boy Scout enrolled in programs for water activities)

Holonyms ("Boy Scout" is a member of...):

Boy Scouts (an international (but decentralized) movement started in 1908 in England with the goal of teaching good citizenship to boys)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A man who is considered naive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("boy scout" is a kind of...):

inexperienced person; innocent (a person who lacks knowledge of evil)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Kill not the goose that laid the golden egg." (English proverb)

"Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." (Native American proverb, Blackfoot)

"Evil in people does not go away when they get buried." (Arabic proverb)

"Through falls and stumbles, one learns to walk." (Corsican proverb)



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