copyist
Americannoun
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a person who makes written copies; transcriber
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a person who imitates or copies
Etymology
Origin of copyist
Example Sentences
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A woman develops a special bond with composer Ludwig van Beethoven while working as his copyist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019
“Halloo old John, I wrote this letter,” copyist Harriet Straub wrote in the margin of one.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2018
Paderni was a painter and copyist from Rome, who had come to Herculaneum to reproduce some of the villa’s wall paintings.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 16, 2015
Her father was a civil engineer, her mother a music copyist.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2014
He is no slavish copyist, however, of those authorities, nor of any others, however eminent.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
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