From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscribescribe /skraɪb/ noun [countable] 1 BOWRITEsomeone in the past whose job was to make written copies of official documents2 a journalist – used humorously
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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” 