Lexicography

Quick meaning: Lexicography is a noun meaning (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

Meaning

(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

Example Sentences

But changes of this nature belong to lexicography, as they do not affect the grammatical forms of words.

A dictionary, as an art and craft of lexicography, has always been closely associated with the notion of pedagogy.

And ſuch is the fate of hapleſs lexicography, that not only darkneſs, but light, impedes and diſtreſſes it; things may be not only too little, but too much known, to be happily illuſtrated.

[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]

Word Forms

• lexicographies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lexicology, lexicon, lexicologist, glossology, metalexicography, lexiconophilia.

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