We found 39 dictionaries that define the word
scapegoat:
General (29 matching dictionaries)
- scapegoat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
- scapegoat: Merriam-Webster
- scapegoat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- scapegoat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- scapegoat: Collins English Dictionary
- scapegoat: Vocabulary.com
- Scapegoat, scapegoat: Wordnik
- scapegoat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- scapegoat: Wiktionary
- scapegoat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- scapegoat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- scapegoat: Infoplease Dictionary
- scapegoat: Dictionary.com
- scapegoat: Online Etymology Dictionary
- scapegoat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Scapegoat (Takuto album), Scapegoat (band), Scapegoat (disambiguation), Scapegoat (film), Scapegoat, The Scapegoat (Cherryh novel), The Scapegoat (Du Maurier novel), The Scapegoat (audio drama), The Scapegoat (painting): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Scapegoat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- scapegoat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- scapegoat: Rhymezone
- scapegoat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- Scapegoat: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
- Scapegoat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
- scapegoat: FreeDictionary.org
- scapegoat: Mnemonic Dictionary
- Scapegoat: The Word Detective
- scapegoat: TheFreeDictionary.com
- scapegoat: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- scapegoat: Encyclopedia
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- scapegoat: Medical dictionary
Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
- scapegoat: A Word A Day
- scapegoat: Idioms
- scapegoat: Wordcraft Dictionary
Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
- Scapegoat: Easton Bible
- Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
- Scapegoat: Smith's Bible Dictionary
- Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
(Note: See
scapegoated as well.)
▸ noun: In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
▸ noun: Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.
whipping boy,
escapegoat,
sacrificial lamb,
burnt offering,
kaparot,
zeroa,
kapparot,
Tophet,
omer,
tamid,
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convenient,
easiest,
perfect,
political,
handy,
universal,
human,
obvious,
ideal,
favorite,
useful
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