scrivener

«scrivener» in Mova's school dictionary: A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (scriveners); old use

meaning for a pupil

(old use) A scrivener was a person whose job was to write and copy documents for other people, a kind of clerk who wrote out legal papers. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old stories about law and wills, a writer of papers who works with the lawyer, called an attorney

examples

• The scrivener wrote the papers by hand. tree →
• Neither the scrivener nor the lawyer came to the house. tree →
• The old scrivener copied the will in neat letters. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scrivener» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.