Home › Words › O › outscoutoutscoutoutscout means an advance scout.EtymologyFrom out- + scout.nounAn advance scout.A group of advance scouts; an advance scouting party.e.g.“As soon as they approached near the Town, the two Indians which were in the Canoa with our five Men for the Out-scout, jumped over-board, and we lost them.” — 1707, William Funnell, chapter 3, in A Voyage Round the World, London: James Knapton, page 42:verbTo surpass in scouting, or reconnaissance.e.g.“In the Matabele campaign he had out[-]scouted the savage scouts and found his pleasure in tracking them among their native mountains, […]” — 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Siege of Mafeking”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 404:To overpower by disdain; to outface.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.outspy 73% match — To surpass in spying. vs outscout →outsnatch 66% match — To surpass in snatching. vs outscout →outpass 65% match — To surpass or exceed. vs outscout →outreport 65% match — To surpass in reporting. vs outscout →scoutwatch 64% match — A scout or spy. vs outscout →outscent 63% match — To exceed in odour; to be more odorous than. vs outscout →outsquawk 63% match — To squawk louder than; to surpass in squawking. vs outscout →outscore 63% match — To score more than. vs outscout →