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View synonyms for lexicographer
lexicographer
[ lek-si-kog-ruh-fer ]
noun
- a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lexicographer1
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Example Sentences
Giles Jacob died; an English law writer, biographer, and lexicographer.
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Learned lexicographer, permit me to remark that your translation is incorrect: faselus, faseolus cannot mean haricot.
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Dr. Webster, with all his great merits as a lexicographer, loved to meddle with the language too much.
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After the death of the late Dean Scott, the great lexicographer, it was decided to raise a memorial to him in his cathedral.
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William Kenrick, in 1773, seems to have been the first English lexicographer to denounce this pronunciation.
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