Penman

Quick meaning: Penman is a noun meaning A scribe, or a person who copies texts.

Meaning

A scribe, or a person who copies texts.

More Meanings

1. A person with writing skills; a journalist or other author.
2. (slang) A forger.

Example Sentences

Well, I often wish I were a penman; but I never could do it. I’ll read any day as long as you like, but that writing, I could never manage.

But there had been total silence. The Captain evidently was not a great penman, and Rosamond reflected that the sisters might have been abroad.

[T]he holy Pen-men of the Nevv Teſtament ſeem to have borrovv'd and apply'd it [the word mystery] to ſome of the Great and Arduous Truths of Chriſtianity, ſuch as human Reaſon cannot give a clear and explicit Account of.

You have a very bad opinion indeed of the present state of Literature and of literary men, if you fancy that any one of us would hesitate to stick a knife into his neighbour penman, if the latter's death could do the state any service.

Word Forms

• penmen

Synonyms for penman

Depending on context, synonyms include scribe, scribbler.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include scribe, scribbler, calligrapher, monteith, amanuensis, copyist.

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