manuscript
Syllables: man·u·script/ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
manuscript adjective: handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
Adjective
manuscript (not comparable)
- Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
Noun
manuscript (plural manuscripts)
- A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- We read in history, that the beauty of an ancient manuscript tempted King Alfred, when a boy at his mother's knee, to learn the letters of the Saxon tongue.1845, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Anglo-Saxon Language and Poetry”, in The Poets and Poetry of Europe. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey and Hart, […], →OCLC, page 1, column 1
- 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- 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.
manuscript meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
manuscript in Hindi
- handwritten, or by extension typewritten
- हस्तलिपि hastalipi
- book, composition or any other document, written by hand
- पांडुलिपि pāṇḍulipi
manuscript in Tamil
- கையெழுத்து நகல், கையெழுத்துப்படி, கையெழுத்துப்படு, சுவடி, பழைய காலத்துச் சுவடிகள், ஓலைச்சுவடி
manuscript in Urdu
- manuscript
- پستک pustak
manuscript in Bengali
- book, composition or any other document, written by hand
- পাণ্ডুলিপি panḍulipi
More languagesFewer languages
- manuscript in Telugu
- మాన్యుస్క్రిప్ట్, వ్రాతప్రతి
- manuscript in Malayalam
- കൈയെഴുത്ത് kaiyeḻuttŭ
- manuscript in Kannada
- ಕಯ್ಬರಹದ ಕಡತ, ಬೆರಳಚ್ಚು ಕಡತ, ಅಚ್ಚಿಗನುವಾದ ಬರಹ, ಹಸ್ತಪ್ರತಿ
- manuscript in Gujarati
- તાડપત્ર tāḍpatra
- manuscript in Odia
- ପାଣ୍ଡୁଲିପି, ପାଣ୍ଡୁଲିପିର
- manuscript in Nepali
- पाण्डुलिपि, पांडुलिपि
- manuscript in Arabic
- مَخْطُوطَة maḵṭūṭa, مَخْطُوط maḵṭūṭ
- manuscript in Malay
- manuskrip, naskhah
- manuscript in Indonesian
- naskah
- manuscript in Persian
- دستنوشته dast-nevešte, دستنویس dast-nevis, نسخه خطی nosxe xatti, مخطوطه maxtute
- manuscript in Thai
- ต้นฉบับ dtôn-chà-bàp
- manuscript in Vietnamese
- thủ bản
- manuscript in Myanmar
- စာမူ camu
Examples of manuscript in a sentence
- Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
Synonyms of manuscript
Forms of manuscript
| plural | manuscripts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | MS |
| alternative form | ms |
| alternative form | MS. |
| alternative form | ms. |
Origin of manuscript
1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus, a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + Latin scrīptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)). Not found in Classical Latin.
From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“writing by hand”), a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle Low German hantschrift (“manuscript, document”), Middle Dutch hantscrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1451), Old High German hantgiskrīb (“handwriting, document, manuscript”), Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.
Words formed from manuscript
Phrases with manuscript
Questions about manuscript
- What does manuscript mean?
- Manuscript means handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
- What is manuscript in Hindi?
- Manuscript in Hindi is हस्तलिपि (hastalipi), पांडुलिपि (pāṇḍulipi). See Manuscript meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use manuscript in a sentence?
- Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
- What part of speech is manuscript?
- Manuscript can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce manuscript?
- Manuscript is pronounced /ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/.
Words near manuscript in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: manuscript (page history and authors); manuscript (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); پستک (Urdu) (page history and authors); manuscript (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); കൈയെഴുത്ത് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); manuscript (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); તાડપત્ર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); manuscript (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); manuscript (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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