Lexicography meaning
The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
noun
The act, process, art, or work of writing, compiling, or editing a dictionary or dictionaries.
noun
(linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
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Origin of lexicography
- lexico(n) –graphy
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- lexico- +"Ž -graphy
From Wiktionary