Definition of Lexicographers. Meaning of Lexicographers. Synonyms of Lexicographers

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Definition of Lexicographers

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 Lexicographers from wikipedia

- orthographic Anna de Villiers (1900–1979), Afrikaans South African writer, lexicographer, and educator Faust Vrančić (Croatia, 1551–1617) Croatian et al. five-language...
- research also enables lexicographers to discriminate different senses of a word based on said evidence. Additionally, lexicographers were now able to work...
- The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often...
- Esperanto lexicographers are individuals or groups, whether enthusiastic amateurs or trained linguists, who have produced single-language or bilingual...
- language and usage. Especially when making bilingual law dictionaries, the lexicographers need to take a broad view of what legal lexicography involves. Most...
- 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...
- A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's...
- written representation for the sounds of speech. The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech–language...
- swapping letters around and adopting spoonerisms and malapropisms. The lexicographer Susan Rennie stated that Dahl built his new words on familiar sounds...
- Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists. Scribner. p. 71. ISBN 978-1-4516-5134-8. Abrams, Meyer...