noun

calligrapher

calligrapher

A calligrapher wrote the wedding invitations.

A calligrapher wrote the wedding invitations.

a calligrapher / the calligrapher (a person who practices calligraphy) A calligrapher wrote the wedding invitations.

Synonyms: scribe, penman, artist

From 'calligraphy' + '-er'. 'Calligraphy' is from Greek 'kallos' (beauty) + 'graphein' (to write). So, a 'beautiful writer'.

Remember it as a person (-er) who does 'calligraphy'. Imagine an artist who creates beautiful (calli-) graphics (graph-).

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