the full vocabulary of a language, or of a group, individual, field of study, etc.
Origin of lexis
see lexicon
noun
Lexis is defined as the full set of words in a language and their definitions.
An example of lexis is what a dictionary tries to contain.
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lexis
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The total set of words in a language as distinct from morphology; vocabulary.
Origin of lexis
Greek speech, word ; see lexicon .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural lexises or lexeis)
- (linguistics) The set of all words and phrases in a language.
- The vocabulary used by a writer
- In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand sometimes.
Origin
From Ancient Greek λÎξις (lexis, “diction", “word"), from λεγ- (leg-, “to speak").
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lexis - Legal Definition
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A computerized legal research service.
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Sentence Examples
- That is unless the law is published by a recognized site source like Lexis or WestLaw, but only a few states use Lexis as its means for publishing laws via the internet.
- The word dyslexia is derived from the Greek word, dys (meaning poor or inadequate) and the word lexis (meaning words or language).
- Lexis (1902); A.
- By Conrad and Lexis, s.vv.