What is another word for copyists?

Pronunciation: [kˈɒpɪˌɪsts] (IPA)

Copyists refer to individuals who copy or reproduce written works or documents for various purposes. Some synonyms for copyists include scribes, transcribers, replicators, duplicators, mimickers, imitators, and transmitters. Scribes are individuals who write books or documents by hand, transcribers copy written works verbatim, replicators create exact copies of a work, and duplicators make reproductions of documents. Mimickers and imitators copy the style or manner of an original work, and transmitters reproduce or pass on information from one person to another. All these synonyms for copyists are useful depending on the context or the nature of the work involved.

Usage examples for Copyists

When one considers the labor that, of later years, has gone to the classification and identification of old manuscripts, the awkward elaboration of nomenclature necessary to distinguish them, the complications resulting from missing pages and from the undue liberties of copyists, one realizes something of the position of the medieval translator.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
It is a new style of novel, and, like all that is very clever, will lead to many copyists.
"The Idler in France"
Marguerite Gardiner
Kees the promised symphonies at present, for here too there is a great want of faithful copyists.
"Haydn"
J. Cuthbert Hadden

Famous quotes with Copyists

  • He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.
    Thomas Carlyle

Word of the Day

Billy Mays
Billy Mays, a legendary figure in the world of infomercials, was highly regarded as the "Pitchman King" due to his remarkable ability to sell almost anything. Synonymous with chari...