copyist
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- noun
- /ˈkɑːpiɪst/
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copista
- A copyist may modify a text for ethical or prudential reasons.
- copyist worked
Pei Shen Kwan, the expert copyist, has moved back to his native China.
- Pei Shen Kwan, the expert copyist, has moved back to his native China.
Examples
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Tell Schlemmer I'm going out for my dinner, and when I get back, I expect a copyist to be here.
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You said you needed a copyist as a matter of great urgency.
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Pei Shen Kwan, the expert copyist, has moved back to his native China.
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As for the scribe, he was prized as a pure copyist, whose faithful rendering of a text was considered a mark of observance to authority.
Academic text (1999) -
As a worker-writer, moreover, David presents himself as a copyist—i.e., a mere transcriber—of memory.
Academic text (1990) -
The copyist carefully transcribed the ancient manuscript by hand.
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In the library, a talented copyist reproduced historical documents for researchers.
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The museum hired a skilled copyist to create replicas of valuable texts.
Synonyms
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A person who writes or records information for other people
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9.9
A person who writes important documents by hand, especially before printing
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A person who listens to spoken words or reads handwriting and types it
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A person or machine that makes exact copies of objects like paintings
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A person who writes down what someone else says
A person who copies texts by hand, often in the past
A person who makes something again by copying or restoring the original
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Etymology
The word copyist comes from the common word copy ('a written version') and the ending -ist ('a person who does something'), so a copyist is someone who makes written copies, often by hand.