Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

inscriptionist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: in-scrip-tion-ist
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.

Example Sentences

"The Egyptians were indeed indefatigable architects, sculptors, painters, hieroglyphists, and inscriptionists[…]"
"Rothko more than any artist I have known succumbed to the lure of light, light that, as the Byzantine inscriptionist said, can be contained but never captured really[…]"
"But it also reminds us from the beginning that words are the physical materials of this poet's work, as they are the materials for the inscriptionist."
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:inscriptionist."

Etymology

From inscription + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: inscription

Inflected Forms

inscriptionists (plural)

Synonyms

scribe

Questions

What does inscriptionist mean?: One who inscribes; a writer of inscriptions.
Where does inscriptionist come from?: From inscription + -ist.

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