Manuscript Definition

mănyə-skrĭpt

manuscripts

noun

manuscripts

A book or document written by hand, esp. before the invention of printing.

Webster's New World

A written or typewritten document or paper, esp. the copy of an author's work that is submitted to a publisher or printer.

Webster's New World

Writing as distinguished from print.

Webster's New World

Synonyms:

adjective

Written by hand or with a typewriter, not printed.

Webster's New World

Designating writing that consists of unconnected letters resembling print; not cursive.

Webster's New World

Which is handwritten, or by extension typewritten, as opposed to mechanical reproduction.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Manuscript

Singular:

manuscript

Plural:

manuscripts

1597, from Medieval Latin manuscriptum (“writing by hand"), from Latin manu (ablative of manus (“hand")) + scriptus (past participle of scribere (“to write")), calqued from a word of Germanic origin, compare Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (c. 1450, “manuscript"), Old English handÄ¡ewrit (before 1150, “what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript"), Old Norse handrit (before 1300, “manuscript").

From Wiktionary
From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum from neuter of manūscrīptus handwritten Latin manū ablative of manus hand man-² in Indo-European roots Latin scrīptus past participle of scrībere to write skrībh- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition