Need another word that means the same as “scribe”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “scribe” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Scribe” are: copyist, scrivener, augustin eugene scribe, scratch awl, scriber, penman, scribbler, clerk, secretary, transcriber, amanuensis, recorder, record keeper, writer, author, journalist, reporter
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “scribe” as a noun can have the following definitions:
amanuensis | Someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation. |
augustin eugene scribe | Informal terms for journalists. |
author | The writings produced by a particular author. He is the author of several books on the subject. |
clerk | An assistant in a shop. A chapter clerk. |
copyist | Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts. The end of the first movement is in the hand of a copyist. |
journalist | Someone who keeps a diary or journal. He was a seasoned TV journalist. |
penman | Informal terms for journalists. This talented penman s work. |
record keeper | Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events. |
recorder | A person who keeps records. A recorder of rural life. |
reporter | A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories. |
scratch awl | A competitor who has withdrawn from competition. |
scribbler | A person who writes for a living or as a hobby. Scribblers are forever borrowing other people s quotations. |
scriber | A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut. |
scrivener | A person who invested money at interest for clients and lent funds to those who wanted to raise money on security. |
secretary | An official of a society or other organization who conducts its correspondence and keeps its records. She was secretary to David Wilby MP. |
transcriber | A musician who adapts a composition for particular voices or instruments or for another style of performance. |
writer | A person who has written something or who writes in a particular way. Dickens was a prolific writer. |
anonymous | Having no outstanding, individual, or unusual features; unremarkable or impersonal. Anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service. |
author | The writings produced by a particular author. I had to read authors I disliked. |
autobiography | An account of a person’s life written by that person. He gives a vivid description of his childhood in his autobiography. |
calligrapher | Someone skilled in penmanship. |
compose | Form the substance of. He composed the First Violin Sonata four years earlier. |
copy | Send someone a copy of an email that is addressed to a third party. Catastrophes make good copy. |
dictation | The activity of taking down a passage that is dictated by a teacher as a test of spelling, writing, or language skills. The dictation of letters. |
disquisition | A long or elaborate essay or discussion on a particular subject. Nothing can kill a radio show quicker than a disquisition on intertextual analysis. |
doodle | Make a doodle draw aimlessly. The text was interspersed with doodles. |
handwriting | Something written by hand. Her handwriting was small and neat. |
hastily | In a hurried or hasty manner. Maybe I acted too hastily. |
indite | Write; compose. He indites the wondrous tale of Our Lord. |
journal | Write in a journal or diary. He reads the medical journals. |
ledger | Fish using a ledger. Ledger tackle. |
libretto | The words of an opera or musical play. |
narrator | A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. His poetic efforts are mocked by the narrator of the story. |
overseer | A person who supervises others, especially workers. |
poet | A writer of poems the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry. He is more poet than academic because of his gift for language. |
poetics | The art of writing poetry. The terminology of traditional poetics. |
pseudonym | A fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role. I wrote under the pseudonym of Evelyn Hervey. |
publish | Print (something) in a book or journal so as to make it generally known. We publish practical reference books. |
quickly | With little or no delay; promptly. He works quickly. |
recognizance | A security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited. He was released on his own recognizance of 30 000. |
rewrite | Rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose. Rewrite after rewrite was drafted to ensure the final version would pass muster. |
scrawl | Write carelessly. He was scrawling on the back of a used envelope. |
scribble | Write or draw (something) carelessly or hurriedly. Illegible scribbles. |
sketch | Make a sketch of. A charcoal sketch. |
typewriter | A machine with keys for producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on paper inserted round a roller. |
write | Write and send a letter to. He had to write a cheque for 800. |
writer | A person who is able to write and has written something. Dickens was a prolific writer. |
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