1
: a member of a learned class in ancient Israel through New Testament times studying the Scriptures and serving as copyists, editors, teachers, and jurists
2
a
: an official or public secretary or clerk
b
: a copier of manuscripts
3
: writer
specifically
: journalist
scribed; scribing
1
: to mark a line on by cutting or scratching with a pointed instrument
2
: to make by cutting or scratching
Examples of scribe in a Sentence
Noun (1)
variations between the different manuscripts attest to the fallibility of the scribes who transmitted them
the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings
a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe
Verb (2)
carefully scribed two lines into the wood
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That movie was written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and based on the 1973 novel of the same name from author Lois Duncan.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Garland had the idea, but Boyle pushed it further than the scribe could have imagined.
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Verb
Carter and Air Mail crafted the idea for the prize, which will be awarded to one fiction writer and one nonfiction scribe whose work embodies Wolfe’s imaginative, precise and literary elan.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 24 June 2025
That movie was written by Scream scribe Kevin Williamson and based on the 1973 novel of the same name from author Lois Duncan.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2025
Noun
The scribe is represented by Heroes and Villains Entertainment and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 26 June 2025
Garland had the idea, but Boyle pushed it further than the scribe could have imagined.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
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“Scribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scribe. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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scribe
1 of 2 noun1
: a scholar of the Jewish law in New Testament times
2
a
: a public secretary or clerk
b
: a person who copies manuscripts
scribe
2 of 2 verb
scribed; scribing
: to mark or make by cutting or scratching with a pointed instrument
Etymology
Noun
Middle English scribe "one of a class of scholars and copiers of the Scriptures in ancient Israel," from Latin scriba "official writer," from scribere "to write" — related to circumscribe, description, scribble, scripture, shrove tuesday
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