lexicographer

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Though unlaureled by any lexicographer, and despised by the virtuous Mrs. Lennox,[5] Mrs. Haywood, nevertheless, had done yeoman service in preparing the way for modest Fanny Burney and quiet Jane Austen.

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  1. noun One who writes, compiles, or edits a dictionary.

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  • One of the questions you often get asked when people find you are a lexicographer is, ‘So do you know all of the words in the dictionary?’ Unfortunately, this is a question that has to be answered in the negative.
  • Now she is a lexicographer, one who writes dictionaries basically, and a kind of superstar lexicographer at that.
  • In short, a lexicographer is one who compiles and/or edits dictionaries.
  • I was quite excited yesterday to spot a little article in the 'Work' section of The Guardian about the job of being a lexicographer - 'How do you decide the meaning of a word?
  • 'These were the dreams of a poet doomed at last to wake a lexicographer,' v. —  Life of Johnson, Volume 6
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  1. Cf. French lexicographe = Spanish lexicógrafo = Portuguese lexicographo = Italian lessicografo; from New Latin lexicographus, from Middle Greek λεξικογράφος, one who writes a lexicon, from Greek λεξικόν, a lexicon, + γράφειν, write: see graphic.
 

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/lɛksɪˈkɑgrəfər/
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