Lexicographist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lexicographist is a noun meaning (chiefly archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
Meaning
(chiefly archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
Example Sentences
Whatever the a priori grammarian might do, the lexicographist, at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as expressing that idea.
Word Forms
- lexicographists
Synonyms for lexicographist
Depending on context, synonyms include dictionarian, dictionarist, lexicographer.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lexicographer, lexiconist, logographer, vocabulist, lichenographist, xylographist.
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