manuscript
Definitions
- handwritten
- A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- 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.
- past participle of manuscribir
Equivalents
43 more languages
Afrikaansmanuskrip
Azərbaycan diliəlyazı
Češtinarukopis
Ελληνικάχειρόγραφο
Gàidhliglàmh-sgrìobhainn
עבריתכְּתַב יָד
Magyarkézirat
Italianomanoscritto
ქართულიხელნაწერი
Kurdîkopî
Latinachirographum
ລາວໜັງສືໃບລານ
Lietuviųrankraštis
Македонскиракопис
မြန်မာစာမူ
Portuguêsmanuscrito
Românămanuscris
Shqipdorëshkrim
ไทยต้นฉบับ
Türkçeyazma
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.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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