lexis

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
P­la­int­iff's La­w­yers A­lexis, Hila­ry I. (Illino­is)

View all »
Definitions (2)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun The total set of words in a language as distinct from morphology; vocabulary.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (28)

  • In other lexis, if your goal is to seep burdening cursorily and return it all back in a month, then go for it. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Melissa: www. sex-lexis.com / Sex-Dictiona ry waaaay better for finding deviant sexual stuff —  Pointlessbanter.net
  • Results of the study indicate that the performance of the Hong Kong students in collocational use might be adversely affected by their L1, L2 as well as their inadequacy in the lexis and grammar of the target language. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The lexis and syntax of examination scripts and essays written during the year offer a still more unchallengeable test of linguistic misunderstanding. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • In the authoritative dictionaries of English, even in cases where the contribution of French to the lexis of modern English has been recognised, any mention of a French etymology for a word usually refers to the continental variety. —  languagehat.com
 

Tags

lexis hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 24 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

cpt · waving · fistful · tite · seeming

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

embodies · silence · spell it rite · britney · bunda