Meanings
plural lexicographists
- 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 #247Synonyms: dictionarian, dictionarist, lexicographer
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
Origin
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