Usually means: Room for writing in monasteries.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. scriptorium: Merriam-Webster
  2. scriptorium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scriptorium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scriptorium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scriptorium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scriptorium, scriptorium: Wordnik
  7. scriptorium: Wiktionary
  8. scriptorium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. scriptorium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. scriptorium: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. scriptorium: Dictionary.com
  12. Scriptorium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Scriptorium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. scriptorium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Scriptorium: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. scriptorium: FreeDictionary.org
  17. scriptorium: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. scriptorium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. scriptorium: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Scriptorium: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. scriptorium: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. SCRIPTORIUM: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. scriptorium: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scriptorium: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scriptorium: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scriptorium)

▸ noun:  (countable) A room set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records, especially such a room in a monastery.

Similar:
scrivenery, scrivening, copydesk, writership, copy desk, script, writing desk, tabula, slot, papeterie, more...

Opposite:
lectorium, auditorium, studio, laboratory, workshop

Adjectives:
monastic, same, own, medieval, royal, active, desiderian, early, important, large, imperial

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Similar:
scrivenery, scrivening, copydesk, writership, copy desk, script, writing desk, tabula, slot, papeterie, more...

Opposite:
lectorium, auditorium, studio, laboratory, workshop

Adjectives:
monastic, same, own, medieval, royal, active, desiderian, early, important, large, imperial



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