Lexicography meaning

lĕk'sĭ-kŏg'rə-fē
The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.
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The act, process, art, or work of writing, compiling, or editing a dictionary or dictionaries.
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The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
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(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

Lexicography Sentence Examples

  • Lastly, he established a scientific system of lexicography and drew up lists of the " best authors."

  • Ahrens; and lexicography by F.

  • Verrius Flaccus in the Augustan age, had busied themselves with lexicography and etymology.

  • In his dictionary, again, he recast the lexicological materials independently, and enriched lexicography itself, especially by his numerous etymological explanations.

  • - As supplemental to the account of poetry may be mentioned here some of the chief collections of ancient verse, sometimes made for the sake of the poems themselves, sometimes to give a locus classicus for usages of grammar or lexicography, sometimes to illustrate ancient manners and customs. The earliest of these is the Mo'allakat.

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