Definition of Lexicographer. Meaning of Lexicographer. Synonyms of Lexicographer

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Definition of Lexicographer

Lexicographer
Lexicographer Lex`i*cog"ra*pher (-[i^]*k[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n. [Gr. lexikogra`fos; lexiko`n dictionary + gra`fein to write: cf. F. lexicographe. See Lexicon.] The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. --Johnson.

Meaning of Lexicographer from wikipedia

- a particular language. A person devoted to lexicography is called a lexicographer and is, according to a jest of Samuel Johnson, a "harmless drudge"....
- Murray, FBA (/ˈmʌri/; 7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary...
- The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often...
- Thomas Blount (1618–1679) was an English antiquarian and lexicographer. He was the son of Myles Blount of Orleton in Herefordshire and was born at Bordesley...
- Peter Bowler was an Australian lexicographer and author of The Superior Person's Book of Words, The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous...
- John Smith (December 21, 1751 [ O.S. December 10 ] – April 30, 1809) was a professor of ancient languages at Dartmouth College and author of the first...
- Sven Lidman (3 December 1921 – 28 February 2011), was a Swedish lexicographer living in Stockholm, son of the writer Sven Lidman. He was the main editor...
- orthographic Anna de Villiers (1900–1979), Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator Faust Vrančić (Croatia, 1551–1617) Croatian et al. five-language...
- Robert Ainsworth (September 1660 – 4 April 1743) was an English Latin lexicographer, and author of a well-known compendious Dictionary of the Latin Tongue...
- Sir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Gr**** and Latin in...