Noun: script
| Singular | script |
| Plural | scripts |
Sample Sentences
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But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
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I was following a social script that teaches women to build lives around money they don’t fully understand. [2026 April 22, Jillian Sanders, “The Danger of Surrendering Your Financial Independence in a Relationship”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2026:]
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I wrote a Python script to put all the files into the right format.
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He located a doctor in Brooklyn who was a writing fool. This croaker would go three scripts a day for as high as thirty tablets a script. [1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 20:]
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Shit, he got the scripts for the cough / In the H, gotta hit Johnny for the frost, swerved off [2014, “Don't Play”, performed by Travis Scott ft. Big Sean and The 1975:]
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She gave me a Bipolar II diagnosis and a script for epilepsy medicine that could be used off-label in cases like mine. [2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like script
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
4. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
5. Proto-Italic *skreiβō
6. Latin scrībō
7. Latin scrīptum
8. Old French escritbor.
9. Middle English scrit
10. English script
11. From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”). See: Middle English Nouns '
scrit', Latin Nouns '
scriptum'.
Verbs referencing "script"
Dutch Nouns
script, French Nouns
script, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
script, Romanian Nouns
script, Finnish Nouns
skripti.