Lexicographist
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer. archaic
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From lexicography + -ist.
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