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. A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.
- n. A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.
- n. The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)
- n. Any dictionary.
- n. The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge)
- n. A vocabulary specific to a certain subject. EX: a baseball lexicon
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
- 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.
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 4084 more...
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Language
word, sentence, novel, book, novella, vignette, memoir, anthology, paragraph, stanza, poem, haiku and 123 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( etymology )
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 837 more...
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D4Divine's list
idiosyncratic, unfathomable, easement, plenary, trenchant, extracurially, periphrastic, prima facie, usurp, vacuous, unctuous, recapitulate and 16 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 31 more...
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Words cool peeps use
These are words I have overheard, or over-read, or had whispered in my ear :-)
loquacious, zygote, epigone, kismet, philotheoparoptesism, venal, imbroglio, ephemeral, smarmy, machination, callipygian, lexicon and 8 more...
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
suppurate, inveterate, douche, Constantinople, zyzygy, polyglot, serendipitous, vivisection, solypsis, conflagration, instupituous, fecundity and 52 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 22 more...
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Awesome Names for Your Heavy Metal Band
onslaught, gamecock, chthonic, hoarfrost, kernicterus, keelhaul, simulacrum, clavicle, interregnum, catafalque, gravamen, blunderbuss and 47 more...
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Uncommon and Interesting words
That come in handy, but might make you look like a douchebag.
prurient, lithe, superannuated, wanderlust, sanguine, florid, slugabed, candor, eldritch, superbowl syndrome, indolent, perforce and 37 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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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 66 more...
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