Definitions for scribes

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scribes scribe

Spelling: [skrahyb]

IPA: /skraɪb/

Scribes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in scribes (bceirss).

Definitions for scribes

noun

1. a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of printing.
2. a public clerk or writer, usually one having official status.
3. Also called sopher, sofer. Judaism. one of the group of Palestinian scholars and teachers of Jewish law and tradition, active from the 5th century b.c. to the 1st century a.d., who transcribed, edited, and interpreted the Bible.
4. a writer or author, especially a journalist.
5. scriber.
6. Augustin Eugène [oh-gys-tan œ-zhen] /oʊ güsˈtɛ̃ œˈʒɛn/ (Show IPA), 1791–1861, French dramatist.

verb (used with object)

1. to write down.
2. to mark or score (wood or the like) with a pointed instrument as a guide to cutting or assembling.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a scribe; write.

Origin of scribes

1350-1400; Middle English Latin scrība clerk, derivative of scrībere to write

Examples for scribes

As for the peddling-box, our scribe will tell of its fate in the following Chapter.

The scribe for Sporting News befriended Ghawi after exchanging messages with her online, he told The Daily Beast.

But he entered the Acropolis a conqueror,” says our scribe; “he won the battle.

“The realisation is a terrible thing,” writes our scribe, quoting his Master.

Did I imagine it, or did she recognize the name of the scribe who had hymned her feminine allure?

The first climax, however, is reached, and our scribe thinks it too sad for words.

He had beautiful handwriting, a very important talent for a scribe.

Doing research for a PhD project, he became a scribe of the tribe on their urban adventures.

They did not dare defy him, and had the scribe bring in the Book.

If you were particularly interested in one topic, you would order your scribe to write down only the relevant items.