Definition of "Scouts"

Scouts

noun
1. plural of Scout
proper noun
1. A worldwide youth movement with the aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play a constructive role in the society .
  Quotations
  Lord Baden-Powell of England is generally given credit for founding the Scouts. There is no doubt he founded the Scout movement in England along military […]
  1976, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Worlds of Ernest Thompson Seton
  In that year Percy Everett suggested that to prevent the Scouts being squeezed out (as they might be if cadet training were to become compulsory for all boys) […]
  2001, Tim Jeal, Baden-Powell
  Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell founded the Scouts in 1907 so that young men might put military and colonial frontier discipline to work in suburban peacetime.
  2004, Philippa Levine, Gender and Empire
  Baden-Powell did not himself write animal stories, but when he decided to form an organisation for younger boys, modelled on the Scouts, […]
  2006, Tess Cosslett, Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction 1786-1914
2. Any of the national Scouts organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America.
  Quotations
  The most common criterion of effectiveness quoted from within the Scout Movement is that of the large number of former Scouts who become successful in later [life …]
  1961, The Australian Journal of Social Issues, Australian Council of Social Service, page 46
  The Scouts promise to make a real effort to help Mrs Tuttleby find a Scout group which will appoint her as a leader with a restricted warrant.
  2000, Rannveig Traustadóttir, Kelley Johnson (editors), Women with Intellectual Disabilities: Finding a Place in the World
  Civic projects were sponsored through service clubs such as Rotary, Apex and Lions. Children might attend Brownies or Cubs, the Guides or the Scouts. […] By the 1960s Australian cultural activities were also being put on an international footing.
  2002, Brian Galligan, Winsome Roberts, Gabriella Trifiletti, Australians and Globalisation: The Experience of Two Centuries
  The Scouts also took him further afield than his native Melbourne. At the end of 1938, he sailed to Sydney for the Scout Jamboree on the Canberra.
  2004, Anne E. Blair, Ruxton: A Biography
  […] and in 2002, the Guides, Scouts, Returned and Serves League and Surf Life Saving clubs all sponsored Harmony Day.
  2004, Dr Winsome Roberts, Brian Galligan, Australian Citizenship, page 95
  […] wherever I have gone […] I have found companies of Scouts inspired by the true Scout tradition […]
  1969, John Buchan, Canadian Occasions: addresses, page 148
  […] in the spring of 1919, a number of local Scouts somehow got hold of a few guns and assisted the Polish soldiers […] Besides such common scouting activities as hikes and summer camps, the Scouts participated in various Polish national festivals […]
  2002, Shimon Redlich, Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945, page 48
3. The Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the former Rhodesian Army.
  Quotations
  […] Turning the tables, the Scouts bit the biter by blowing up […]
  1982, Ron Reid-Daly, Peter Stiff, Selous Scouts: Top Secret War
  Column strength never exceeded 72 men, and the results achieved were out of all proportion. In alone the Scouts notched up 1,257 kills, only 180 of them internal.
  1986, Peter Abbott, Philip Botham, Modern African Wars
  As the terrorists in Rhodesia relied heavily on letters for communication, the Scouts often captured a bonanza of intelligence […]
  1994, Leroy Thompson, SAS: Great Britain's Elite Special Air Service
  The Scouts recognised that dead CTs were either abandoned or buried and forgotten, whereas the living wounded presented an unwanted burden […]
  2005, Peter J. H. Petter-Bowyer, Winds of Destruction: The Autobiography of a Rhodesian Combat Pilot