EGAVE

scribe

About 1.72 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.
  2. noun A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.
  3. noun A journalist.
  4. noun A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
  5. noun A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
  6. verb To write.
  7. verb To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
  8. verb To record, as a scribe.

Similar words

scrivener penman copyist scribbler write calligrapher typing sign record plot

Often followed by

of and who to in was or is the

Word family

Augustin-Eugène Scribe Eugène Scribe Scribe scribed scribes scribing

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