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Meaning of manuscript | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt

Definitions

  1. handwritten
  2. A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
  3. 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.
  4. past participle of manuscribir

Equivalents

Afrikaans manuskrip
Azərbaycanca əlyazı
Čeština rukopis
Ελληνικά χειρόγραφο
Español manuscrito
Français Manuscrit
Gàidhlig làmh-sgrìobhainn
עברית כְּתַב יָד
Magyar kézirat
Bahasa Indonesia naskah
Italiano manoscritto
ქართული ხელნაწერი
한국어 사본
Lietuvių rankraštis
Македонски ракопис
Bahasa Melayu manuskrip naskhah
မြန်မာဘာသာ စာမူ
Português manuscrito
Română manuscris
Shqip dorëshkrim
Türkçe yazma
Українська манускри́пт рукопис
Tiếng Việt thủ bản

Examples

“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 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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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