WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
sco•tia
(skō′shə),USA pronunciation n. [Archit.]
Sco•tia (skō′shə),USA pronunciation n. [Literary.]
- Architecturea deep concave molding between two fillets, as in the Attic base. Also called trochilus. See illus. under molding.
- Greek skotía darkness (from its shadow)
- Latin
- 1555–65
Sco•tia (skō′shə),USA pronunciation n. [Literary.]
- Scotland.
- Latin: Scotland. See Scottish, -ia
'scotia' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Acadian
- Annapolis Royal
- Atlantic Provinces
- Cabot
- Cape Breton Island
- Digby chicken
- Fundy
- Grand Pré
- Halifax
- Louisbourg
- Minas Basin
- Nova Scotia
- Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
- Nova Scotian
- NS
- Pugwash conferences
- Sable
- Sable Island pony
- Saint Lawrence
- Sydney
- Amherst
- Attic base
- bluenose
- Canso
- Cape Breton
- confederation
- Dartmouth
- Eastern Algonquian
- episcotister
- French Shore
- Glace Bay
- Haligonian
- Louisburg
- lox
- Maritime Provinces
- Mersey
- Micmac
- New Glasgow
- Northumberland Strait
- nova
- Nova Scotia lox
- Nova Scotia salmon
- Robinson
- torus
- trochilus
- Truro
- underbearer
- Yarmouth
- Scots Gaelic
- Slocum