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Lexicography
LEXICOG'RAPHY
,Noun.
1.
The act of writing a lexicon or dictionary_webster1828, or the art of composing dictionaries.2.
The composition or compilation of a dictionary_webster1828.Definition 2024
lexicography
lexicography
English
Noun
lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)
- The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
- (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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art or craft of writing dictionaries
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scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures
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