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Definition of "copyist" [cop•y•ist]

  • One who makes written copies. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "copyist" in a sentence
  • "The mention of her shows that the writer of the tale or the copyist was a Cairene: Abd al-Kadir is world-known: not so the “Sitt.”"
  • "It has to be because he is a copyist, that is the word."
  • "The colophon [the title page] named the copyist as Udo of Aachen, and I just had to find out more about this guy."