Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dictionary.
- n. A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject, or style; a vocabulary: the lexicon of surrealist art.
- n. Linguistics The morphemes of a language considered as a group.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A word-book; a vocabulary; a collection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically and defined and explained; a dictionary: now used especially of a dictionary of Greek or Hebrew.
- n. Synonyms Dictionary, Glossary, etc. See vocabulary.
Wiktionary
- n. The vocabulary of a language.
- n. linguistics A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
- n. A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
- n. programming The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
- n. rare Any dictionary.
- n. The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge)
- n. A vocabulary specific to a certain subject.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
- n. a language user's knowledge of words
Etymologies
- English from the 17th century, from a Medieval Latin or New Latin lexicon, from Ancient Greek λεξικόν (lexicon, "a lexicon"), neuter of λεξικός (lexikos, "of words"), from λέξις (lexis, "a saying, speech, word"), from λέγειν (legein, "to speak"). (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin, from Greek lexikon (biblion), word(book), from neuter of lexikos, of words, from lexis, word, from legein, to speak; see leg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The structure of this lexicon is a bit strange, but with a little fooling around, you can get what you need to know.”
“The result should be on-the-fly brand research that enables you to re-craft your messaging mid-campaign as well as giving you a tool to focus the keyword lexicon, or banner and display spend.”
“The precise extent of the English lexicon is non-computable.”
“The lexicon is a shelter for those who want the news, minus the gossip.”
“It comes down to this, Lance, the difference in lexicon: Democrats are over-educated and forgot how to talk to people.”
“What do you want to bet that some right-wingers are already convincing themselves Bedell must be a liberal simply because he was from California and looks like a metrosexual (which in the right-wing lexicon is more or less equivalent to “gay”).”
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“From Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, an Anglo-Latin lexicon from c. 1440:”
“Although it does seem to me that a debate about terminology, about the conventionality of the critical lexicon, is still in order: When the powers that be in literary study want to show they have not entirely abandoned the old critical order, they like to point out that much current academic criticism is underpinned by what they want to still call "close reading.”
“One should realize that "conservative" in European lexicon is still far more liberal than the American liberal.”
“Perhaps it's because space opera requires a certain lexicon accrued over decades to truly appreciate its subtleties.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lexicon’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Muse's tacet ,to learn
Music brings silence's to raging thoughts and temperament , calm, as it is our object of definite purpose.
tacet, cadence, tempo, treble clef, penultimate, lexicon, origin, orchestra, kantele, magus, eros, coalesce and 248 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
object-oriented p..., ALGOL, validation, Erlang, markup language, Python, hibernate, framework, Apache, template, mapper, Java and 310 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 567 more...
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Lyngwistix
semantic, semiotic, linguistic, etc.
lexeme, sonorant, prosody, monophthong, portmanteau, dithyramb, inflection, deixis, mondegreen, screed, persiflage, polysemy and 42 more...
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forms/acts: mind
illation, inference, spatulamancy, mantic, satori, hierophant, lexicon, hallelujah, perichoresis, ludic, stochastic, aporia and 3 more...
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 45 more...
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Vocabulary
shibboleth, verboten, jejune, ostensible, multifarious, quintessence, purportedly, tangential, vacillate, quagmire, wanton, onerous and 74 more...
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Poetry Terms
April is National Poetry Month. Add your favorite poetry terms to this new list!
alliteration, anapest, alexandrine, caesura, assonance, ballad, blank verse, iamb, conceit, couplet, consonance, dactyl and 30 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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These words are about words.
words on words. yyep.
codex, folio, lexicon, tome, word stock, wordbook, wordlist, palaver, word index, argot, parlance, doublespeak and 68 more...
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Words For Novel
viridity, effigy, paragon, congested, acrid, lilting, clandestine, plethora, accolade, sardonic, naïve, reckoning and 285 more...
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A Refined Lexicon
ambivalence, ambivalent, equivocal, equivocation, equivocate, prevaricate, prevarication, quietude, quiescent, quiescence, vanquish, pluviosity and 137 more...
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Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lexicon.
utarcher "There is, of course, something distasteful and absurd in the very project of parsing this lexicon of death." - Justice Blackmun Aug 27, 2010
uselessness I've always referred to my personal lexicon as the collection of words that I know and use. It's a synonym for vocabulary. Wordie is a great web site that helps us expand our lexica. Sep 12, 2007
drumr4evr another reference to dictionary Sep 12, 2007
brtom -- I want you to write something for me, he said. Something with a bite in it. You can do it. I see it in your face. In the lexicon of youth...
Joyce, Ulysses, 7 Jan 1, 2007