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Webster 1913 Edition
Lexicographer
Lexˊi-cog′ra-pher
(lĕksˊĭ-kŏg′rȧ-fẽr)
, Noun.
The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the
lexicographer
can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lexicographer
LEXICOG'RAPHER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
lexicographer
lexicographer
English
Noun
lexicographer (plural lexicographers)
- One who writes or compiles a dictionary
- 1755, Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language:
- A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
- 1811, George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace:
- Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do.
- 1860, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica:
- The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem.
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one who writes or compiles a dictionary
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