Baden-Powell

American  

[beyd-n-poh-uhl, bad-n-pou-uhl] / ˈbeɪd nˈpoʊ əl, ˈbæd nˈpaʊ əl /

noun

1. Robert Stephenson Smyth 1st Baron, 1857–1941, British general who founded the Boy Scouts in 1908 and, with his sister Lady Agnes, the Girl Guides in 1910.

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Baden-Powell British  

/ -ˈpaʊəl, ˈbeɪdənˈpəʊəl /

noun

1. Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)

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Example Sentences

Baden-Powell hike near Wrightwood, several popular routes have been burned.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2024

Several local towns and New York state’s Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is working with the Baden-Powell Council of the Boy Scouts to try to preserve the land.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 4, 2022

As Wrexham's Sarah Atherton was speaking in the Commons, a fellow Tory backbencher could be heard saying Scout movement leader Robert Baden-Powell "would be turning in his grave".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2022

Scouting began in Britain, under the leadership of Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, a career army officer.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2020

Colonel Baden-Powell is young, as men go in the army, with a keen appreciation of the possibilities of his career, swayed by ambition, indifferent to sentimental emotion.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by Hamilton, J. Angus