COPYIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does copyist mean? 

• COPYIST (noun)
  The noun COPYIST has 1 sense:

1. someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

  Familiarity information: COPYIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COPYIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

copyist; scribe; scrivener

Hypernyms ("copyist" is a kind of...):

employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)

Instance hyponyms:

Ezra (a Jewish priest and scribe sent by the Persian king to restore Jewish law and worship in Jerusalem)

Derivation:

copy (a reproduction of a written record (e.g. of a legal or school record))

copy (make a replica of)

copy (copy down as is)

 Context examples 

A few dull courts and narrow ways brought us to the sky-lighted offices of Spenlow and Jorkins; in the vestibule of which temple, accessible to pilgrims without the ceremony of knocking, three or four clerks were at work as copyists.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)