SCRIVENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scrivener mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCRIVENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

copyist; scribe; scrivener

Hypernyms ("scrivener" 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)

 Context examples 

“It is Sir William de Pakington, the prince's own herald and scrivener,” whispered Sir Nigel, as they pulled up amid the line of knights who waited admission.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

See to the noble armor set forth, and the costly taffeta—and oh, Ford, see to where the scrivener sits with the pigments and the ink-horns, and the rolls of sheepskin as white as the Beaulieu napery!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If, on the other hand, he should have hardened his heart against him, he could only go on his way and do the best he might by his skill as a craftsman and a scrivener.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Paul, there are men so caitiff that they think more of a scrivener's pen than of their lady's smile, and do their devoir in hopes that they may fill a line in a chronicle or make a tag to a jongleur's romance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)