Scribe
Name for writers
A scribe is someone who writes or copies documents by hand.
Before printing, scribes preserved texts by copying manuscripts—a role essential to literacy and record-keeping.
The term extends to any professional writer or clerk.
In construction, to scribe is to mark or score a line for cutting: Scribe the board to fit the irregular wall.
A scribe is also the pointed tool used for marking.
Document duplicator by hand
- amanuensisDictation-taking assistant
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- notaryDocument authentication official
- clerkOffice record-keeper
stenographer · recorder · documenter · penman · legal · court reporter · dictation · minutes
Wound document of parchment
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- reed penCut hollow stem for writing
- hieroglyphicsSymbolic picture-based writing
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
clay tablet · parchment · inkwell · copyist · scriptorium · calligraphy · quill · vellum
Writer of historical accounts
- authorCreator of written works
- writerCreator of texts
- historianExpert on past events
- biographerOne who writes lives
journalist · narrator · bard · storyteller · poet · essayist · memoirist · wordsmith
copyist
Document duplicator by hand
- amanuensisDictation-taking assistant
- secretaryAdministrative office aide
- notaryDocument authentication official
clerk · stenographer · recorder · documenter · penman · legal · court reporter · dictation · minutes · correspondence
scroll
Wound document of parchment
- papyrusAncient plant-derived writing material
- reed penCut hollow stem for writing
- hieroglyphicsSymbolic picture-based writing
cuneiform · clay tablet · parchment · inkwell · copyist · scriptorium · calligraphy · quill · vellum · illumination
chronicler
Writer of historical accounts
biographer · journalist · narrator · bard · storyteller · poet · essayist · memoirist · wordsmith · annalist
marking
Indicating with symbols
- etchingAcid-incised metal print
- scoringEarning points in competition
- carpenterTimber construction tradesperson
woodworking · line · groove · compass · metal · construction · layout · pointed · measure · cabinetry
- New ZealandAuckland, Wellington, Air New Zealand, Kiwis, Christchurch
- French PlaywrightsRacine, Ionesco, Reza
- Judaicamenorah, Torah scroll, Talmud, Torah study, mezuzah
- text formatsHTML, XML, Markdown, LaTeX, RTF
Scribereader
One who peruses text
illiterate · audience · recipient · listener · orator
Scribeeraser
Mark removal tool
censor · iconoclast · vandal · obliterator · redactor
Scribeorator
Skilled public speaker
oral historian · griot · bard · town crier · herald
- Christian scriptureReligious text of Christianity
- holy scriptureReligious text from deity
- flip the scriptSubvert expected dynamics
- off script
- film scriptWritten work for cinema
- script fontsTypefaces resembling handwriting
scribes, scribed, scribing, scribble, scribbles, scribbled, scribbling, scribbler, script