Synonyms of scribe

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noun

1

as in amanuensis

one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts

variations between the different manuscripts attest to the fallibility of the scribes who transmitted them

Synonyms & Similar Words

• amanuensis
• penman
• copyist
• calligrapher
• scrivener

2

as in registrar

an official whose job is to keep records

the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• registrar
• clerk
• secretary
• reporter
• recorder
• archivist
• register
• chronicler
• historian
• bookkeeper
• transcriptionist
• annalist
• documenter

3

as in writer

a person who creates a written work

a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writer
• author
• pen
• novelist
• storyteller
• penman
• poet
• litterateur
• biographer
• scrivener
• screenwriter
• scribbler
• reporter
• littérateur
• woman of letters
• blogger
• wordsmith
• columnist
• stylist
• cowriter
• playwright
• man of letters
• belletrist
• journalist
• hagiographer
• ghostwriter
• dramatist
• memoirist
• scriptwriter
• bard
• memorialist
• autobiographer
• auteur
• fabulist
• fictioneer
• essayist
• fictionist
• coauthor
• pamphleteer
• hack
• scenarist
• versifier
• sportswriter
• satirist
• belle-lettrist
• romancer
• rhymer
• newspaperman
• wordmonger
• hatchet man
• prosaist
• coscenarist
• proser
• paragrapher
• prosateur

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthor

• nonauthor

scribe

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verb

as in to file

to mark with or as if with a line or groove

carefully scribed two lines into the wood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• file
• scratch
• groove
• seam
• mill
• score
• flute
• scarify
• bevel
• chamfer
• rasp
• graze
• abrade