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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scoutmaster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Sculley assumed the role of scoutmaster.
▪ Served as a scoutmaster in Greenwich and Dallas.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scoutmaster

also scout-master, 1570s, from scout (n.) + master (n.). Boy Scouting sense from 1908.

Wiktionary
scoutmaster

n. An adult who leads a group of scouts.

WordNet
scoutmaster

n. the leader of a troop of Scouts

Usage examples of "scoutmaster".

Ellsworth, scoutmaster, that he heard something on the subject which stuck in his mind.

Tom let himself down into the field and went over to where the scoutmaster waited, bow and arrow in hand.

Mary had a thousand questions to ask as to the meaning of the various signals, and the kind scoutmaster answered them all patiently, finally summoning Eddie Ingram to show her about the camp and explain all its mysteries.

The scoutmaster had no favorites and the close relation between himself and Roy was not generally apparent in the troop.

Ellsworth though he showed it in a more effeminate way than Tom had shown it, and the readiness with which he made the scoutmaster a refuge rather jarred upon Mr.

The scoutmaster asked one or two questions and dismissed the messenger.

It has been borne in upon me lately that your good scoutmaster is a wonder-worker, and what you have just said strengthens that growing conviction.

Fritz was rapidly approaching a point where he could work out his own salvation, the scoutmaster thought discretion on his part warranted a hasty departure, unless he wished to take the place his comrade vacated.

Things, under the clever questioning of the young scoutmaster, seemed to be fitting in with each other, just as a carpenter dovetails the ends of a box together.

The scoutmaster had asked him to keep close at his heels, for since Seth had acquired more or less of a fund of swamp lore from the man who trapped muskrats for their pelts, in the fall and winter, if any knotty problems came up to be solved the chances were Seth would be of more use than any one of the other fellows.

Seth, staring with considerable more respect at the foot of dingy yellow stuff which the scoutmaster was holding in his hands.

Seth declared, from which remark the scoutmaster understood that by now the others must have caught those suspicious sounds, and were trying to figure out what they stood for.

Seth, who had been so close on the heels of the scoutmaster that he sighted the struggling objects ahead almost as soon as Paul did himself.

This was one of those emergencies spoken of before now, when the scoutmaster did not allow himself to pause and consider, but acted from impulse only.

Only for his pride in obeying all orders that came to him from the scoutmaster, Seth very likely would have followed the cat, and probably rued his rashness when he had to call for help a minute or so later.