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lexi·con (leksi kän′)

noun

  1. a dictionary, esp. of an ancient language
  2. the special vocabulary of a particular author, field of study, etc.
  3. a record or inventory a notable case in the lexicon of subversion
  4. Linguis. the total stock of morphemes in a language

Etymology: Gr lexikon, neut. of lexikos, of words < lexis, a saying, phrase, word < legein: see logic

lexicon Synonyms

lexicon

n.

glossary, thesaurus, vocabulary; see dictionary, vocabulary.

lexicon Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • language: The lexicon of a language consists of many kinds of signs other than simply nouns.
  • word: A language, such as English, has a lexicon of words as well as conventions of word order and grammar in sentences.
  • term: Campbell Jung Lexicon Of Terms A useful lexicon of terms, particularly related to the psychology of Carl Jung.

Converse of object

  • enter: The secular term " burn-out " has entered the evangelical lexicon over the past two decades.
  • acquire: After all, our children have language problems and cannot be expected to acquire a huge lexicon.
  • develop: The experimental results showed that agents using either strategy could develop a coherent lexicon rather well.
  • share: In the end, the entire population comes to share a lexicon.
  • build: The tree node used when building a lexicon with block information.
  • write: An output stream for writing the lexicon to a file sequentially.

Adjective modifier

  • accent-independent: Representing the environments for phonological processes in an accent-independent lexicon for synthesis of English.
  • multilingual: Should a multilingual lexicon capture all these similarities or should only a specific kind of similarities be captured?
  • bilingual: Alignment at word level effectively means developing a bilingual lexicon.
  • Hebrew: Brown's Hebrew lexicon also reinforced Strong's definition.
  • mental: Finally we discuss the implications for the mental lexicon.
  • Greek: To top Strong's lexicon Strong's Hebrew & Greek lexicon is a standard reference work.

Modifies a noun

  • entry: And, more importantly, we consult the texts as we write the lexicon entries.
  • file: Method Detail print public void print ( ) Prints out the contents of the lexicon file.

Noun used with modifier

  • pronunciation: Automatic generation of pronunciation lexicons for Mandarin casual speech.
  • keyword: The treatment of vowels preceding ' r ' in a keyword lexicon of English.
  • word: Penfriend XP version 3.0 Main improvements: Improved prediction with new Series 3 lexicons, including new 30,000 word lexicon.
lexicon Quotes

   If the Russian word 'perestroika' has easily entered the international lexicon, it isduetomorethanjust interest in what isgoing on in the Soviet Union. Now the whole world needs restructuring; that is, progressive development, a fundamental change.

—Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama†ridicule and reproach†pleading and persuasion.

—Safire,William

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