What does scrivener mean?

Definitions for scrivener
ˈskrɪv nərscriven·er

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word scrivener.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. copyist, scribe, scrivenernoun

    someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts

Wiktionary

  1. scrivenernoun

    A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

  2. scrivenernoun

    One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.

  3. scrivenernoun

    A writing master.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Scrivenernoun

    Etymology: scrivano, Latin.

    We’ll pass the business privately and well:
    Send for your daughter by your servant here,
    My boy shall fetch the scrivener. William Shakespeare, Tam. of the Shrew.

    How happy in his low degree,
    Who leads a quiet country life,
    And from the griping scrivener free? John Dryden, Horace.

    I am reduced to beg and borrow from scriveners and usurers, that suck the heart and blood. John Arbuthnot, Hist. of John Bull.

Wikipedia

  1. Scrivener

    A scrivener (or scribe) was a person who could read and write or who wrote letters to court and legal documents. Scriveners were people who made their living by writing or copying written material. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities. Scriveners later developed into public servants, accountants, lawyers and petition writers, and in England and Wales, scrivener notaries.

ChatGPT

  1. scrivener

    A scrivener is a professional scribe or copyist who writes or transcribes documents such as contracts, wills, and other legal or official papers. This term is historical, used especially for individuals who performed this work before the invention of printing. In modern times, it can refer to a legal clerk or a public notary.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Scrivenernoun

    a professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings

  2. Scrivenernoun

    one whose business is to place money at interest; a broker

  3. Scrivenernoun

    a writing master

  4. Etymology: [From older scrivein, OF. escrivain, F. crivain, LL. scribanus, from L. scribere to write. See Scribe.]

Wikidata

  1. Scrivener

    Scrivener was a Middle English term for a person who could read and write. This usually indicated secretarial and administrative duties such as dictation and keeping business, judicial, and history records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities. Scriveners later developed into public servants, accountants, lawyers and petition writers.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Scrivener

    skriv′en-ėr, n. a scribe: a copyist: one who draws up contracts, &c.: one who receives the money of others to lay it out at interest.—n. Scriv′enership. [O. Fr. escrivain (Fr. écrivain)—Low L. scribanus—L. scriba, a scribe.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SCRIVENER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Scrivener is ranked #29918 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Scrivener surname appeared 785 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Scrivener.

    90.3% or 709 total occurrences were White.
    3.8% or 30 total occurrences were Black.
    2.5% or 20 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of scrivener in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of scrivener in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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