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lexicographer

[ lek-si-kog-ruh-fer ]

noun

  1. a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lexicographer1

1650–60; < Late Greek ±ô±ð³æ¾±°ì´Ç²µ°ùá±è³ó ( os ) ( lexicon, -graph ) + -er 1
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Wood explained she had decided to apply after host Colin Murray appealed for older contestants, and lexicographer Susie Dent encouraged more female applications.

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Brat was crowned Collins Dictionary word of the year earlier this month, with lexicographers defining it as someone with a "confident, independent and hedonistic attitude".

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Collins' lexicographers, who put together their dictionaries, look at social media and other sources to determine which words should be added to their annual list of new and notable words.

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The list was narrowed down in a public vote, before Oxford lexicographers made the final decision.

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And there was a big court case going on at the time, where a slang lexicographer, Stephen Farmer, was being sued for putting in the c-word and the f-word in his dictionary.

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