Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
- noun The act or process of making a dictionary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing
dictionaries . - noun linguistics The
scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing thesemantic ,syntagmatic andparadigmatic relationships within thelexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of writing dictionaries
Etymologies
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Examples
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The greatest lexicographer of the 19th and early 20th century, James A.H. Murray, began his Romanes Lecture in 1900 on The Evolution of English Lexicography — one of the key texts in English lexicography — with a little story:
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One casualty in the new year, Toon predicts, will be "transformation" as a supply chain strategy, as it will be replaced in the buzzword lexicography by "optimization."
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For the first time in Latin lexicography, suffixes are treated as headwords, a welcome innovation and one that balances with the traditional treatment of prefixes as such.
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It just means to say, in lexicography’s telegraphic fashion, that they’re related etymologically.
Word Court 2008
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It just means to say, in lexicography’s telegraphic fashion, that they’re related etymologically.
Word Court 2008
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These books belie the perception that slang lexicography is concerned with swear words.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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These books belie the perception that slang lexicography is concerned with swear words.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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There remains yet to be considered the distribution of words into their proper classes, or that part of lexicography which is strictly critical.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces Samuel Johnson 1746
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Throughout its second half, he tries to draw a contrast between Webster's democratic, "common man" approach to lexicography and his supposedly imperious behavior.
A Definitive American Life Barton Swaim 2011
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Its scholarship, accuracy and reliability make it one of the most significant contributions to Arabic lexicography.
Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic « Books « Literacy News 2009
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