Synonyms for lexicographer
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lek-si-kog-ruh-fer |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌlɛk sɪˈkɒg rə fər |
Top 10 synonyms for lexicographer
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
- 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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