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Synonyms for lexicographer


Grammar : Noun
Spell : lek-si-kog-ruh-fer
Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛk sɪˈkɒg rə fər

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Définition of lexicographer

Origin :
  • 1650s, from French lexicographe "lexicographer," from Greek lexikographos, from lexikon "wordbook" (see lexicon) + -graphos "writer," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
  • noun dictionary writer
  • noun dictionary editor
Example sentences :
  • A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • Joseph Emerson Worcester, a celebrated American lexicographer.
  • Extract from : « Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia » by Various
  • It is as a lexicographer, however, that Barker is chiefly known.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 » by Various
  • Man has been defined by some lexicographer as a “cooking animal.”
  • Extract from : « Shifting Winds » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • He was Noah Webster, then at the beginning of his stormy career as a lexicographer.
  • Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken
  • Lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge."
  • Extract from : « The Story of Doctor Johnson » by S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts
  • Yes, that's Samuel—I'm glad you didn't say Ben was the lexicographer.
  • Extract from : « An American Girl in London » by Sara Jeannette Duncan
  • He had been a lexicographer and an associate magazine editor.
  • Extract from : « The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces » by Joyce Kilmer
  • There is no obvious vulgarity in the lexicographer's definitions of the word "sex."
  • Extract from : « Sex-education » by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
  • What words to come from the mouth of the great moralist and lexicographer!
  • Extract from : « Hazlitt on English Literature » by Jacob Zeitlin
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