Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A constituent country of the United Kingdom comprising the northern part of the island of Great Britain as well as the Hebrides, Shetland Islands, and Orkney Islands. Inhabited by Picts in prehistoric times, parts of the region were subsequently settled by Anglo-Saxons, Gaels, and Scandinavians. In the ninth century most of Scotland was unified into one kingdom, but conflicts with England soon erupted, leading to a series of bloody wars. When James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scots, succeeded to the English throne in 1603, the two kingdoms were united. Scotland became a part of the kingdom of Great Britain by a parliamentary act of 1707. Edinburgh is the capital and Glasgow the largest city.
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- proper noun A
country in northwestEurope to the north ofEngland and forming part of theUnited Kingdom .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Comrades aint run scotland wih an iron grip for close to 80 years without being good at some things, Labour in Scotland is a business remember - an ailing one, but it will fight for its shareholder's perks and privillages with a tenacity.
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Heathrow is the destination for some flights from scotland, but it amounts to the destination of less than 20% of the total number of domestic flights from Scotland to England and less than 30% of the flights from scotland to london airports.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Another new herb blogger is Pille, an Estonian living in Scotland, who writes the great blog Nami-Nami.
Archive 2005-12-01 Kalyn Denny 2005
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EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Another new herb blogger is Pille, an Estonian living in Scotland, who writes the great blog Nami-Nami.
Weekend Herb Blogging #10 Recap Still Discovering New Herbs Kalyn Denny 2005
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How wonderful then, in the light of a few years, that a fugitive slave from America, bearing one of the most powerful names in Scotland should lean against the pillars of the _Free Church of Scotland_, and meet and vanquish its brightest and ablest teachers (the friends of slavery, unfortunately), Doctors Cunningham and Candlish!
History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams
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_Transactions of the Antiquarian Society of Scotland_, vol.ii. p. 350., there are "Observations on the Norwegian Expedition against Scotland in the year 1263," by John Dillon, Esq.; and at pp. 363-4, when speaking of the annular eclipse, he says:
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Brown, P. Hume, _Scotland in the Time of Queen Mary_; a study of social conditions, not politics or persons, in Scotland; inferentially, useful to the student of English social conditions.
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Devonshire as "Duffy and the Devil" in Hunt's _Romances and Drolls of the West of England_, 239-47; in Scotland two variants are given by Chambers, _Popular Rhymes of Scotland_, under the title
English Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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In Scotland the few that have been collected by Mr Robert Chambers [_Popular Rhymes of Scotland_ (Ed. 1847).] are as good in tone and keeping as anything of the kind in the whole range of such popular collections.
Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856
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SCOTLAND, UK - The way in which Scotland tackles animal disease outbreaks is being reviewed to ensure the country maintains its position as a quality meat producer at home and abroad.
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