scrivener
pronunciation
How to pronounce scrivener in British English:
UK ['skrɪv(ə)nə]
How to pronounce scrivener in American English:
US [ 'skrɪvənɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts
Word Origin
- scrivener (n.)
- "professional penman, copyist," late 14c. (early 13c. as a surname), with superfluous -er + scrivein "scribe" (c. 1300), from Old French escrivain "a writer, notary, clerk" (Modern French écrivain), from Vulgar Latin *scribanem accusative of scriba "a scribe," from scribere "to write" (see script (n.)).
Example
- 1. When scrivener author , keith blount , asked you about the writeroom implementation of block-cursor , you just gave him your source code .
- 2. As I afterwards learned , the poor scrivener , when told that he must be conducted to the tombs , offered not the slightest obstacle .
- 3. The two first were clerks to an eminent scrivener or conveyancer in the town , charles brockden ; the other was a clerk to a merchant .
- 4. In a presentation in september , jennifer cole , a social psychologist , and hannah scrivener reported results from two related studies , both of which demonstrate that it 's in one 's self-interest to say " so-and-so 's second husband is adorable " rather than " she married that lout ? "
- 5. A world bank of this studied as funded study released early this year predicted the amazon could become a grasses scrivener grassy savannah by the end of the century .