Lexicographer Synonyms

lĕksĭ-kŏgrə-fər
A compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. lexicologist
  2. definer
  3. linguist
  4. philologist
  5. dictionary writer
  6. etymologist
  7. polyglot
  8. dictionary maker
  9. dictionarist
  10. lexicographist
  11. author
  12. glossarian
  13. glossarist
  14. glossologist
  15. glossographer
  16. compiler
  17. glottologist
  18. philologer
  19. vocabulist
  20. phonologist
  21. philologian
  22. phonetician
  23. phoneticist
  24. wordsmith
  25. editor

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Lexicographer Sentence Examples

  • It's written by lexicographer Andrew Delahunty who also produced The Oxford Dictionary of Nicknames.

  • Christian Molbech (1783-1857) was a laborious lexicographer, author of the first good Danish dictionary, published in 1833.

  • The incidents of his life are shrouded by uncertain traditions, which naturally sprang up in the absence of any authentic record; the earliest biography was by one of the Sorani, probably Soranus the younger of Ephesus, in the 2nd century; Suidas, the lexicographer, wrote of him in the 11th, and Tzetzes in the 12th century.

  • He was fifteen years younger than his brother Louis, a great Latin scholar and lexicographer, who survived him.

  • Johnson had, in his prospectus, told the world that he was peculiarly fitted for the task which he had undertaken, because he had, as a lexicographer, been under the necessity of taking a wider view of the English language than any of his predecessors.

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