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Definitions for Scribe

[1] a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
[2] a public clerk or writer, usually one having official status.
[3] Also called sopher, sofer. Judaism . one of the group of Palestinian scholars and teachers of Jewish law and tradition, active from the 5th century b.c. to the 1st century a.d., who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible.
[4] a writer or author, especially a journalist.
[5] to act as a scribe; write.
[6] to write down.
[7] to mark or score (wood or the like) with a pointed instrument as a guide to cutting or assembling.
[8] scriber.
[9] Au·gus·tin Eu·gène [oh-gy s-tan œ -zhen ] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ œˈʒɛn/ , 1791–1861, French dramatist.
[10] a person who copies documents, esp a person who made handwritten copies before the invention of printing
[11] a clerk or public copyist
[12] Old Testament a recognized scholar and teacher of the Jewish Law
[13] Judaism a man qualified to write certain documents in accordance with religious requirements
[14] an author or journalist: used humorously
[15] another name for scriber
[16] to score a line on (a surface) with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
[17] Augustin Eugène (oɡystɛ̃ øʒɛn). 1791–1861, French author or coauthor of over 350 vaudevilles, comedies, and libretti for light opera

Words related to Scribe

clerk, secretary, transcriber, scrivener, copier, copyist

Words nearby Scribe

scriabin, scribble, scribbler, scribbling block, scribbly gum, scribe, scriber, scrim, scrimmage, scrimmage line, scrimp

Origin of Scribe

2First recorded in 1670–80; perhaps aphetic form of inscribe

Other words from Scribe

scrib·al , adjective
un·scrib·al , adjective

Word origin for Scribe

(in the senses: writer, etc) C14: from Latin scrība clerk, from scrībere to write; C17 (vb): perhaps from inscribe

Synonyms for Scribe

clerk, copier, copyist, scrivener, secretary, transcriber