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scribe

noun

Definition of SCRIBE

1

one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts <variations between the different manuscripts attest to the fallibility of the scribes who transmitted them>

Synonyms amanuensis, calligrapher, copyist, penman, scrivener

2

an official whose job is to keep records <the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings>

Synonyms register, registrar, scribe, secretary

Related Words archivist, bookkeeper, recorder, reporter, transcriptionist; annalist, chronicler, documenter, historian

3

a person who creates a written work <a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe>

Synonyms litterateur (or litt{eacute}rateur), pen, penman, scribe, scrivener, writer

Related Words auteur, belletrist (also belle-lettrist), stylist, wordsmith; coauthor, coscenarist, cowriter; ghostwriter, hack, hatchet man, scribbler, wordmonger; biographer, hagiographer; autobiographer, memoirist, memorialist; fabulist, fictioneer, fictionist, novelist, romancer, storyteller; essayist, pamphleteer, satirist; dramatist, playwright, scenarist, screenwriter, scriptwriter; prosaist, prosateur, proser; bard, poet, rhymer, versifier; blogger, columnist, journalist, newspaperman, paragrapher, reporter, sportswriter

Antonyms nonauthor