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US
/ˌɫɛksɪˈkɑɡɹəfɝ/
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[ UK /lˌɛksɪkˈɒɡɹəfɐ/ ]
[ UK /lˌɛksɪkˈɒɡɹəfɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
How To Use lexicographer In A Sentence
- It might even be argued that the work has already been done, namely by the lexicographers, and has been incorporated into the larger dictionaries of the better studied languages.
- Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography.
- To distinguish semantically between "gourmandise" in its proper application ( "la gourmandise proprement dite") and the common understanding of "gourmandise" as gluttony one must partake in the gourmand's powers of discrimination — unlike the lexicographers, but quintessentially like Savarin, whose prose, in portraying the gourmand's enjoyment of his expertise, takes pleasure it itself. Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire
- Johnson would have none of it: he scorned the lexicographer who deluded himself that he could ‘embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay’.
- I'll let you enjoy the silly stuff over there; here I want to highlight one paragraph about finding new words and usages on the internet:That's where Oxford lexicographer Erin McKean has found words like farb (not authentic, badly done), nomenklatura (non-literally; by analogy), drabble (a short story of 100 words or fewer), haxie (a hack for the Macintosh operating system) and swancho (a combination poncho/sweater). Languagehat.com: NOMENKLATURA?
- For example, he defined "lexicographer" as "a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
- Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
- Identify, please, a father and son double-act, a brace of lexicographers, the Prime Minister's generic neighbour, an almanack compiler and a naval hero and explain the journalistic connection. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
- The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.
- Therefore he reasoned that "epiphenomenon" had been built up to accommodate some modern theory of thought, some new leprosy of the mind never dreamed of by the noble lexicographer. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance