scapegoats
Meaning of scapegoats
plural noun
- a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
- (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
- make a scapegoat of.
few things are harder for kids to bear than being scapegoated
it makes little sense to scapegoat the poor
mid 16th century: from archaic scape ‘escape’ + goat.
Information about scapegoats
- The singular form of scapegoats is: scapegoat.
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Hyphenation of scapegoats
scape-goats
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- scapegoats is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
scapegoats synonyms
Meaning a living creature killed as a religious sacrifice:
Meaning a hardy domesticated ruminant mammal that has backward-curving horns and (in the male) a beard. It is kept for its milk and meat, and noted for its lively behaviour:
Meaning a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something:
Words that rhyme with scapegoats
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