Vocabularian

Quick meaning: Vocabularian is an adjective meaning (uncommon) Of or relating to vocabulary.

Meaning

(uncommon) Of or relating to vocabulary.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) One who cultivates a large or impressive vocabulary.

Example Sentences

You might have one of these prodigious vocabularians in your house.

Indeed so inventive have been baseball's vocabularians, as Paul Dickson's dictionary indicated, this type of baseball humor shows no sign of slowing down.

Had you ever noticed that fashions in words are just as changeable as fashions in wearing apparel? For a time the intellectuals will seize madly upon a word, use it until it is threadbare and then toss it into the vocabularian ragbag.

Certainly the redoubtable Miss Samuels, who taught me at Marryatville Primary School in Adelaide, had just such an objection to “got” – and to “get” for that matter – and would strike it out and insist on its replacement with another verb. Similarly, but more understandably, she would demand substitutes for the adjective “nice”, in her view another example of vocabularian laziness.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for vocabularian

Depending on context, synonyms include vocabular, vocabularial, vocabulist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vocabulist, wordmaster, dictionary-monger, lexiconist, wordster, polyglot.

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