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SCOTLAND

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Scotland"):

Caledonia (the geographical area (in Roman times) to the north of the Antonine Wall; now a poetic name for Scotland)

Highlands; Highlands of Scotland (a mountainous region of northern Scotland famous for its rugged beauty; known for the style of dress (the kilt and tartan) and the clan system (now in disuse))

Lowlands; Lowlands of Scotland (the southern part of Scotland that is not mountainous)

Galloway (a district in southwestern Scotland)

Aberdeen (a city in northeastern Scotland on the North Sea)

Balmoral Castle (a castle in northeastern Scotland that is a private residence of the British sovereign)

Lothian Region (a district in southeast central Scotland (south side of the Firth of Forth) and the location of Edinburgh)

Glasgow (largest city in Scotland; a port on the Clyde in west central Scotland; one of the great shipbuilding centers of the world)

Hebridean Islands; Hebridean Isles; Hebrides; Western Islands; Western Isles (a group of more than 500 islands off the western coast of Scotland)

Orkney Islands (an archipelago of about 70 islands in the North Atlantic and North Sea off the northeastern coast of Scotland)

Shetland; Shetland Islands; Zetland (an archipelago of about 100 islands in the North Atlantic off the north coast of Scotland)

Clyde (a river in western Scotland that flows from the southern uplands into the Firth of Clyde; navigable by oceangoing vessels as far as Glasgow)

Loch Ness (a lake in the Scottish highlands; the largest body of fresh water in Great Britain)

Firth of Clyde (a firth on the southwestern coast of Scotland emptying into the North Channel)

Firth of Forth (a large firth on the east coast of Scotland and the estuary of the Forth River; location of Edinburgh)

Forth; Forth River (a river in southern Scotland that flows eastward to the Firth of Forth)

Loch Linnhe (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Scotland)

Loch Achray (a lake in central Scotland)

Cumbria (a former Celtic kingdom in northwestern England; the name continued to be used for the hilly northwestern region of England including the Lake District and the northern Pennines)

Cheviot Hills; Cheviots (a range of hills on the border between England and Scotland)

Antonine Wall (a fortification 37 miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde); built in 140 to mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain)

Caledonian Canal (a canal in northern Scotland that links North Sea with the Atlantic Ocean; runs diagonally between Moray Firth at the northeastern end and Loch Linnhe at the southwestern end; now little used)

Meronyms (members of "Scotland"):

Scot; Scotchman; Scotsman (a native or inhabitant of Scotland)

Domain member region:

langsyne (at a distant time in the past (chiefly Scottish))

beefy; buirdly; burly; husky; strapping (muscular and heavily built)

couthie; couthy ((chiefly Scottish) agreeable and genial)

caller (fresh)

leal (faithful and true)

kelpie; kelpy ((Scottish folklore) water spirit in the form of a horse that likes to drown its riders)

blae (of bluish-black or grey-blue)

bashful; blate (disposed to avoid notice)

wee (a short time)

Lammastide (the season of Lammas)

thane (a feudal lord or baron)

laird (a landowner)

bairn (a child: son or daughter)

glen (a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains))

firth (a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland))

brae (a slope or hillside)

ben (a mountain or tall hill)

Episcopal Church; Episcopal Church of Scotland (an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland)

haggis (made of sheep's or calf's viscera minced with oatmeal and suet and onions and boiled in the animal's stomach)

bap (a small loaf or roll of soft bread)

scunner (a strong dislike)

ceilidh (an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling)

Scots; Scots English; Scottish (the language, languages or the dialect of English used in Scotland)

tawse (a leather strap for punishing children)

dirk (a relatively long dagger with a straight blade)

battle of Langside; Langside ((1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants)

battle of Brunanburh; Brunanburh (a battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots)

Bannockburn (a battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland)

curling (a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target)

Holonyms ("Scotland" is a part of...):

GB; Great Britain (an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales)

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Domain member region:

braw (brightly colored and showy)

Credits

 Context examples: 

You may not have heard of the last blow—Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

After passing some months in London, we received a letter from a person in Scotland who had formerly been our visitor at Geneva.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“It is easy to see, friend, that you were born far from the marches of Scotland,” quoth the stranger, with a bitter smile.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Why, I've only been back three weeks from Uganda, and taken a place in Scotland, and signed the lease and all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or “there by”, as they say in Scotland.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In Western Europe, only small areas of night sky remain relatively undiminished, mainly in Scotland, Sweden and Norway.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

I did not thoroughly understand what you were telling your brother, cried Emma, about your friend Mr. Graham's intending to have a bailiff from Scotland, to look after his new estate.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then Arthur spoke out:—Dr. Van Helsing, I don't quite like to 'buy a pig in a poke,' as they say in Scotland, and if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Their findings are based on data from 33,536 men and 32,229 women born in Scotland in 1936, who took a validated childhood intelligence test at age 11, and who could be linked to cause of death data up to December 2015.

(Higher IQ in Childhood Linked to Longer Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The alarm had reached Scotland Yard by this time, and Mr. Forbes, the detective, came round at once and took up the case with a great deal of energy.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)