scribe
Plural: scribes
Noun
- French playwright (1791-1861)
- informal terms for journalists
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
- a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
- Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
- Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
- A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ
- A journalist.
- A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
- A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
Verb
Verb Forms: scribed, scribing, scribes
- To mark a surface with a pointed instrument; to write.
- score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
- To write.
- To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
- To record, as a scribe.
- To write or draw with a scribe.
- To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
- To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
Examples
- The player would SCRIBE possible words on a scratch pad before committing to a play.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English scribe, from Old French scribe (“scribe”), from Late Latin usage of scrība (“secretary”) (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render Ancient Greek γραμματεύς (grammateús, “scribe, secretary”), which had been used in its turn to render the Hebrew סופר (“writer, scholar”)) from scrībere (“to write, draw, draw up, draft (a paper), enlist, enroll, levy; orig. to scratch”), probably akin to scrobs (“a ditch, trench, grave”).
Synonyms
Augustin Eugene Scribe, copyist, penman, scratch awl, scribbler, scriber, scrivener, amanuensis, tabellion
Scrabble Score: 10
scribe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordscribe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
scribe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary