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penman
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. informal terms for journalists [syn: scribe , scribbler ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "copyist, clerk, scrivener" (obsolete), from pen (n.1) + man (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A scribe, or person who copy texts 2 A journalist or other author
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Penman \Pen"man\, n.; pl. Penmen . One who uses the pen; a writer; esp., one skilled in the use of the pen; a calligrapher; a writing master. An author; a composer. --South.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Penman is a surname. It refers to: Andy Penman (1943–1994), Scottish professional football player David John Penman (1936–1989), Australian Anglican archbishop Ian Penman (contemporary), British radio and television writer Ian Penman (born 1959), British ...
Usage examples of penman.
Edward Cocker, penman and engraver, famous in his time for the number and variety of his productions.
Ibn-al-Bawwab, the Penman, is said to have possessed a skill in Penmanship to which no other person ever attained in ancient or modern times.
Yahya bin Khalid, the Barmekide, 99, 100 Yahya bin Maseweih, the physician and translator, 74, 75, 91,98 Yakut, the penman, 113, 114 Yazid I.
Steve Penman or anything they believed to be even remotely suspicious.
Bishop wanted to say that they could still find Penman alive, but the words would ring hollow.
Steve Penman, who by most accounts did have a lot of anger in his nature.
Steve Penman the day he disappeared, but the manager is in the store and was able to check his books.
Were I a penman, the view from this window in sunlight would make the ink flow nobly.
We heard him, scarce a twelvemonth since, deliver a discourse of singular power on the sin-offering as minutely described by the divine penman in Leviticus.
The Nancy and Betty Sherman of the story told there were Nancy and Betsy Penman, daughters of a United Empire Loyalist who came from the States at the close of the war of Independence.
My brother Lionel is, no doubt, an excellent penman, but when it comes to genius such as yours, Sergeant, you need a light touch and a real gift for writing prose.
Training had been suspended and the wounded penman had been carried off with some excitement and commotion to have a piece of plaster stuck over the damaged place.
Before them on the horizon, faint and distant, but visible in every detail as if inscribed in ink by a master penman, loomed the Osidh Elanor, the mountains of the dawn.
The rough hand-made papers so heartily despised by the copyists of the thirteenth century are now preferred by neat penmen and skilled draughtsmen.
There one can study the largest assortment of criminals outside of a penal institution, from the Artful Dodger and Bill Sykes, Fagin and Jim the Penman, to the most modern of noted crooks of fact or fiction, all done here in real flesh and blood.