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scrivan

scrivan noun: a clerk or writer.

Noun

scrivan (plural scrivans)

  1. (obsolete) A clerk or writer.
    • They told me their husbands were scrivans to the sultan, and that on their arrival in Cairo they should go to the house of the Khalil Bey till they proceeded to Alexandria; […]1822, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia And of a Journey to the Coast of the Red...

Forms of scrivan

pluralscrivans

Origin of scrivan

Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivano, scrivener, and escribano.

Questions about scrivan

What does scrivan mean?
Scrivan means a clerk or writer.
What part of speech is scrivan?
Scrivan is a noun.
What is the plural of scrivan?
The plural of scrivan is scrivans.

Words near scrivan in the dictionary

  1. scritching
  2. scritchings
  3. scritchy
  4. scritoire
  5. scritoires
  6. scrivan
  7. scrivano
  8. scrivanoes
  9. scrivanos
  10. scrivans
  11. scrive

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