lexicographist

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noun

A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.

Scrabble 29

Meanings

nounlexicographist (plural lexicographists)

plural lexicographists

  1. archaicA student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
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    Whatever the a priori grammarian might do, the lexicographist, at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as expressing that idea.

    1889, William Gardner Hale The Cum‐Constructions, John Wilson and Son; Chapter VII, page #247

    Synonyms: dictionarian, dictionarist, lexicographer

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.

Origin

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APA

lexicographist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lexicographist

MLA

“lexicographist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lexicographist. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lexicographist,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lexicographist.

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