SCRIBE Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ˈskrīb

Definition of scribe

as in amanuensis

one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts variations between the different manuscripts attest to the fallibility of the scribes who transmitted them

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as in registrar

an official whose job is to keep records the scribe keeps the minutes of the club's meetings

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as in writer

a person who creates a written work a book of dusty poems by some now-forgotten scribe

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verb

as in to file

to mark with or as if with a line or groove carefully scribed two lines into the wood

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Today, controversy over a regulator’s decision on AI scribes. — Mario Aguilar, STAT, 4 Aug. 2026 But somewhere in the show’s creative journey and the blending of British television veterans and scribes from inside Jackson’s Power-verse, a lot of the specificity vanished into the ether. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 30 July 2026 Reports suggest that a season 2 writers’ room never opened and the scribes have since been released to pursue other projects. — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 30 July 2026 Hurst hopes more context can be gleaned by further studies of the many other plaster scraps—which bear different handwriting from at least one other scribe—and by excavating more of the lost city. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for scribe

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Noun

Much later, when Lamarck was old and blind, this Rosalie would be his amanuensis, reading to him, conducting research for him, and even writing for him.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Groff, the three-time National Book Award finalist and best-selling author, wrote the libretto with Doraiswamy and served as a kind of amanuensis to the production.

— Laura van Straaten, New York Times, 11 July 2025

Definition of amanuensis

Noun

The Bayeux Tapestry‘s journey to the British Museum was made possible by a remarkable team of conservators, registrars, engineers, and specialist art handlers whose work is rarely seen by the public—and the Times of London has given them their due.

— George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Those eligible to vote can visit the state’s online voter registration portal to sign up, apply in person to your town clerk or registrar, or download a paper form in English or Spanish and mail it in to your town’s registrar of voters office.

— Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026

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Contributing Writer Laura Itzkowitz is a freelance writer and editor with a passion for covering travel, arts and culture, lifestyle, design, food, and wine.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026
Ahmed Naji is a bilingual writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker, and official criminal from Egypt.

— Sabrina Jaszi, The Dial, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of writer

Verb

Investigators presented the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office earlier Tuesday for filing consideration.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
All four of her grandparents were born and raised in Italy; in 2018, the then 62-year-old former magazine editor moved to Perugia, in the central Umbria region, on a temporary visa at the same time as filing a lawsuit for citizenship.

— Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of file

Noun

Copying is part of a long tradition in art history, especially at the Louvre, which has maintained a copyists’ bureau since its founding in 1793.

— Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
The watercolor was recently rejected by specialists in 2020, who believe the copyist worked from a photograph of the work that was first published in 1904.

— Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024

Definition of copyist

Noun

Hersey — reporting on a clerk, a tailor’s widow, two doctors, a priest, and a pastor — gave US readers their first sense of what the new superweapon did to human bodies.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 6 Aug. 2026
His military occupational specialty was warehouse clerk, and his final assignment was with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion at Camp Pendleton.

— Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of clerk

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The author warns that humanity's insistence on supremacy could lead to conflict with advanced AI, even provoking existential threats.

— Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2026
The author, who appears in the series and serves as a consulting producer, took part in a panel discussion of Monsters of God Thursday night after HBO screened episode 1 at Vidiots in Los Angeles.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2026

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