Lexis definition
An example of lexis is what a dictionary tries to contain.
In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand sometimes.
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Noun
Origin of lexis
- Greek speech, word lexicon
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Ancient Greek λέξις (lexis, “diction", “word"), from λεγ- (leg-, “to speak").
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