Definition of scribe Scribe

/skɹajˈb/ - [skrayb] - Scribe

We found 22 definitions of scribe from 7 different sources.

What does scribe mean?

Noun Plural: scribes
scribe - informal terms for journalists
		scribbler, penman
		journalist a writer for newspapers and magazines
scribe - French playwright (1791-1861)
		Augustin Eugene Scribe
scribe - someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
		copyist, scrivener
		employee a worker who is hired to perform a job
scribe - a sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut
		scriber, scratch awl
		awl a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes
Verb scriare, scribeing, scribeen
scribe - score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking
		nock, score, mark make underscoring marks

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scribe (Noun)
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
scribe (Noun)
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
scribe (Noun)
A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
scribe (Noun)
A writer, especially a journalist.
scribe (Verb)
To write.
scribe (Verb)
To record.
scribe (Verb)
To write or draw with a scribe.

scribe (n.)
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
scribe (n.)
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
scribe (v. t.)
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
scribe (v. t.)
To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
scribe (v. t.)
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
scribe (v. i.)
To make a mark.

scribe
skrīb, n. a writer: a public or official writer: a clerk, amanuensis, secretary: (B.) an expounder and teacher of the Mosaic and traditional law: a pointed instrument to mark lines on wood, &c.—v.t. to write: to record: to mark.—adjs. Scrī′bable, capable of being written upon; Scribā′cious, given to writing.—n. Scribā′ciousness.—adj. Scrī′bal, pertaining to a scribe.—ns. Scrī′bing; Scrī′bing-com′pass, an instrument used in saddlery and cooper-work; Scrī′bism. [Fr.,—L. scriba—scribĕre, to write.]

scribe
(Heb. Sofer). Among the Jews, originally a kind of military officer, whose business appears to have been the recruiting and organizing of troops, the levying of war-taxes, and the like. At a later period, especially at the time of Christ, it had come to designate a learned man, a doctor of the law.