(University of Cambridge) A religiously or academically significant day; one on which festal academic dress should be worn.

(idiomatic) A rumour spread by a scaremonger in order to cause anxiety.

Resembling a scarab. / (jewelry, archaeology) Resembling a scarab in form, but without being made to look like a beetle. / (obsolete, entomology) Of or pertaining to beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.

Any beetle of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea

(zoology, entomology) Any beetle of the family Scarabaeidae (which includes stag- and dung-beetles).

plural of scarabaeus

plural of scarlet letter

(transitive) To cause (something) to flee by frightening it. / (transitive) To deter

(archaic) A beetle

plural of scaraboid