Manuscript

Quick meaning: Manuscript is an adjective meaning Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

Meaning

Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

More Meanings

1. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
2. A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.

Example Sentences

In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

Word Forms

• manuscripts

Synonyms for manuscript

Depending on context, synonyms include handwrit, autograph, handwriting, ms.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ms, handwriting, handwritten, autograph, text, folio.

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