manuscript

Collocations

18

1

(noun.) copy of a book that has not yet been printed

ADJ

original

autograph, handwritten

The museum displayed a handwritten manuscript by the famous author from the 1800s.

unpublished | unfinished | literary, music/musical

QUANT

copy

The author kept several copies of her manuscript in different locations for safety.

VERB + MANUSCRIPT

write | type | edit, revise

submit (for publication)

She finally submitted her manuscript to the publisher after working on it for two years.

accept/reject (for publication)

After three years of hard work, the publisher finally accepted her manuscript for publication.

PREP

in ~

The author kept her novel in manuscript form for several years before submitting it to publishers.

2

(noun.) very old book/document, written by hand

ADJ

ancient, early, medieval

contemporary

A contemporary manuscript from the 1920s reveals fascinating details about daily life in that era.

rare

surviving

Historians were excited to discover a surviving manuscript in the monastery's library.

illuminated

MANUSCRIPT + VERB

survive

Several ancient manuscripts survive in the library's special collection today.

Definitions

adj

1

Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.

noun

1

A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.

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.

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

2

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.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the form of a literary work submitted for publication

ms

noun — handwritten book or document

holograph

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

6

01

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

Wiktionary

02

The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and

Wiktionary

03

You should come early in order for him to read your manuscript before your speech.

Tatoeba · #17152

04

Can you manage to complete the manuscript by Friday?

Tatoeba · #18469

05

Though imperfectly, he finished writing his manuscript.

Tatoeba · #18866

06

The manuscript had been written out by hand.

Tatoeba · #48193