Meaning & use
scribe
A person employed to copy out documents by hand, especially before printing was invented.
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Medieval scribes spent months copying a single manuscript by candlelight.
The ancient scribe recorded the king's decrees on clay tablets.
A note on using this word
Scribe is sometimes used loosely today for a note-taker or writer, as in 'act as scribe for the meeting.'
Words with a similar meaning
copyist
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