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lexicography Definition

lexi·cog·ra·phy (lek′sə käg′rə fē)

noun

the act, process, art, or work of writing or compiling a dictionary or dictionaries

Etymology: < Gr lexikon, lexicon + -graphy

lexicography Related Forms
lexico·graphic (lek′si kə graf′ik) adjective or lex′ico·graph′i·cal lex′ico·graph′i·cally adverb
lexicography Synonyms

lexicography

n.

dictionary making, philology, derivation, etymology, origin, genesis, glossography, terminology, orismology, glottogony, glossology, lexicology, phonology; see also grammar, language 2.

lexicography Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • include: Obvious application areas include lexicography, natural language understanding ( NLP ) systems, and all branches of applied and theoretical linguistics.

Adjective modifier

  • bilingual: Nevertheless it is still a problem to use text corpora in bilingual lexicography.
  • English: The story of English lexicography is of course a major topic in itself.
  • Kurdish: Unfortunately, Kurdish lexicography is not a matter of simply compiling the data from all the existing dictionaries into one big lexicon.
  • Scots: SLD's main website can be regarded as the international face of Scots lexicography.

Noun used with modifier

  • corpus: An ideal system for corpus lexicography is one in which the corpus database and the dictionary are interactive.
lexicography Quotes

Iamnot yet so lost inlexicographyastoforgetthat words arethe daughters of earth, and thatthings arethesons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but thesigns of ideas: Iwish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things which they denote.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

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  8. ‹ lex scripta
  9. ‹ lex non scripta
  10. ‹ lex loci delicti
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