scribe

Word family adjectivescribablescribaciousscribalnounscribaciousnessscriberscribingscribescribism

Related topics: Occupations

scribe /skraɪb/ noun [countableC]

1. BOWRITEsomeone in the past whose job was to make written copies of official documents 〔旧时的〕抄写员

2. a journalist – used humorously 新闻记者〔幽默用法〕

Examples from the Corpus

scribe• I can not work as a scribe, and I am beginning to enjoy being free.• Each of the assistants was accompanied by a scribe.• It was a return to the Bible by a scribe who had seen the consequences of Hellenization.• Glad you could find the time to pop in on a humble scribe.• We sat on a bench, and the scribe wrote with a goose-quill pen.• Did those scribes care for their hands, tend their fingers, in the way classical musicians are reputed to?

Origin scribe

(1100-1200) Latin scriba, from scribere “to write”

单词	scribe
释义	scribe Word family adjectivescribablescribaciousscribalnounscribaciousnessscriberscribingscribescribism Related topics: Occupations scribe /skraɪb/ noun [countableC] 1. BOWRITEsomeone in the past whose job was to make written copies of official documents 〔旧时的〕抄写员 2. a journalist – used humorously 新闻记者〔幽默用法〕 Examples from the Corpus scribe• I can not work as a scribe, and I am beginning to enjoy being free.• Each of the assistants was accompanied by a scribe.• It was a return to the Bible by a scribe who had seen the consequences of Hellenization.• Glad you could find the time to pop in on a humble scribe.• We sat on a bench, and the scribe wrote with a goose-quill pen.• Did those scribes care for their hands, tend their fingers, in the way classical musicians are reputed to? Origin scribe (1100-1200) Latin scriba, from scribere “to write”
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