lexicographer
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9.3
- noun
- /ˌlɛksɪˈkɹɑːɡrəfəɹ/
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lexicógrafo
- However, we lexicographers do something approximating this when we meet to choose the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year.
Examples
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Early seventeenth-century lexicographers had completely confused acender and ascender.
Academic text (1995) -
Worse than that; this assumption flew in the face of pretty much everything lexicographers had to say about the subject.
Blog text (19) -
"The Word of the Year, as chosen by Oxford University Press' lexicographers, is GIF.
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Lexicographers are defending their choice, saying the word conveys our increasing use of technology.
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Reminds me of hedgehogs, lexicographers, anthropologists of words: What are the words people are actually using?
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The word stagnata appears frequently in accounting records that pertain to the Chinea, but its meaning has escaped Italian lexicographers' attention.
Academic text (1995) -
There is not any controversy over this definition, not among dictionaries and lexicographers, English linguists, encyclopedias and encyclopedists.
Blog text (19) -
And we have good reason to be grateful to all the scholars, commentators, and lexicographers who, in a cumulative endeavor, have applied to Shakespeare their knowledge of the writings of his contemporaries.
Academic text (1998) -
A skilled lexicographer can help ensure that the meanings of words are accurately represented in a dictionary.
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As a lexicographer, she spends her days researching word origins and contextual usage for the dictionary.
Synonyms
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5.4
A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report
A person who studies words and makes dictionaries
A person who collects and studies words and their meanings
How Expert
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9.3
- Specialized
- Archaic
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5.4
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3.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
lexicographer = lexicography (semi-transparent) = lexico + graph + er
The agentive relation from 'lexicography' to 'lexicographer' is regular and directly means a person who does lexicography.
Etymology
Lexicographer comes from Greek parts lexi- ('word') and -graph ('write'), and you can see the same graph in photograph and autograph. So a lexicographer is someone who 'writes' about words — a person who makes or edits dictionaries.