Synonyms of scribes

scribes 1 of 2

noun

plural of scribe

1

as in calligraphers

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

• calligraphers
• copyists
• scriveners
• amanuenses
• penmen

2

as in clerks

an official whose job is to keep records

the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clerks
• registrars
• secretaries
• reporters
• registers
• recorders
• archivists
• historians
• bookkeepers
• chroniclers
• transcriptionists
• annalists
• documenters

3

as in writers

a person who creates a written work

a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writers
• authors
• novelists
• storytellers
• pens
• litterateurs
• poets
• biographers
• men of letters
• littérateurs
• scriveners
• women of letters
• wordsmiths
• penmen
• screenwriters
• reporters
• bloggers
• stylists
• scribblers
• columnists
• playwrights
• dramatists
• journalists
• hagiographers
• cowriters
• co-writers
• ghostwriters
• co-authors
• coauthors
• memoirists
• autobiographers
• pamphleteers
• memorialists
• scriptwriters
• bards
• fabulists
• essayists
• fictionists
• belle-lettrists
• fictioneers
• belletrists
• auteurs
• co-scenarists
• sportswriters
• newspapermen
• wordmongers
• scenarists
• versifiers
• rhymers
• hacks
• romancers
• satirists
• prosaists
• hatchet men
• coscenarists
• prosers
• prosateurs
• paragraphers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthors

scribes

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verb

present tense third-person singular of scribe

as in files

to mark with or as if with a line or groove

carefully scribed two lines into the wood

Synonyms & Similar Words

• files
• scratches
• grooves
• scores
• seams
• mills
• flutes
• scarifies
• bevels
• grazes
• rasps
• chamfers
• abrades