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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Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
Other notable clients include Goodfellas scribe Nick Pileggi, Joe Exotic (of Tiger King fame) and professional wrestlers Chris Jericho and Jack Perry, to name just a few.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 July 2025
Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Singer — and by association, Gray — were recruited in the middle of the writing process, with two scribes penning drafts before and after the American Hustle writer submitted his own.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
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Verb
Actor Daniel Craig said goodbye to the character with 2021’s No Time To Die, which also was the last Bond movie to be shaped by longtime scribes Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who worked on the franchise beginning with 1999’s The World Is Not Enough.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
Other notable clients include Goodfellas scribe Nick Pileggi, Joe Exotic (of Tiger King fame) and professional wrestlers Chris Jericho and Jack Perry, to name just a few.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 28 July 2025
Noun
Next up: Gough and Millar are already in the writers’ room with five other scribes on Season 3.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Singer — and by association, Gray — were recruited in the middle of the writing process, with two scribes penning drafts before and after the American Hustle writer submitted his own.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 31 July 2025
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“Scribe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scribe. Accessed 19 Aug. 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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