He wrote a thesis on Berber lexicography.
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Lexicography
//ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfi//
Synonyms for "lexicography" (28 found)
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Related words (14)
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9 entriesTranslations
78 translations across 54 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բառարանագրություն noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Asturian
1 entries- lexicografía noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- lüğətçilik noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Belarusian
1 entries- лексікагра́фія noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Bulgarian
2 entries- лексикогра́фия noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- лексикогра́фия noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
Catalan
1 entries- lexicografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 詞典學 /词典学 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 詞典學 /词典学 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- 詞典編輯 /词典编辑 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- 辭書學 /辞书学 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Czech
2 entries- lexikografie noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- slovníkářství noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Danish
1 entries- leksikografi noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Dutch
1 entries- lexicografie noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Esperanto
1 entries- leksikografio noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Estonian
1 entries- leksikograafia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Finnish
1 entries- leksikografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
French
1 entries- lexicographie noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Galician
1 entries- lexicografía noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
German
1 entries- Lexikographie noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Greek
2 entries- λεξικογράφηση noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- λεξικογραφία noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Hindi
2 entries- कोशकर्म noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- कोशकर्म noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
Hungarian
2 entries- lexikográfia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- szótárírás noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Icelandic
4 entries- orðabókafræði noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
- orðabókagerð noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- orðabókarfræði noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
- orðabókargerð noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Ido
1 entries- lexikografio noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Interlingua
1 entries- lexicographia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Irish
1 entries- foclóireacht noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Italian
1 entries- lessicografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Japanese
2 entries- 辞書学 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- 辞書編集 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Kazakh
2 entries- лексикография noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- сөздікжасам noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Khmer
1 entries- វចនលេខន៍ noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Korean
1 entries- 사전학 noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- лексикография noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Latin
1 entries- lexica condere noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Latvian
1 entries- leksikogrāfija noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Lithuanian
1 entries- leksikografija noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Macedonian
3 entries- лексикогра́фија noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- лексикогра́фија noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
- речни́карство noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Malay
2 entries- leksikografi noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- perkamusan noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Norwegian
1 entries- leksikografi noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Persian
1 entries- فرهنگنویسی noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Polish
2 entries- leksykografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- słownikarstwo noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Portuguese
1 entries- lexicografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Punjabi
1 entries- ਕੋਸ਼ਕਾਰੀ noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Romanian
1 entries- lexicografie noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Russian
1 entries- лексикогра́фия noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- faclaireachd noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- leksikogràfija noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- leksikogràfija noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
- лексикогра̀фија noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- лексикогра̀фија noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
Spanish
1 entries- lexicografía noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Swahili
1 entries- leksikografia noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Swedish
2 entries- lexikografi noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- lexikografi noun (scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures)
Tagalog
1 entries- leksikograpiya noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Tamil
1 entries- பேரகரமுதலி noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Turkish
3 entries- leksikografi noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- sözlükbilim noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- sözlükçülük noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Ukrainian
2 entries- лексикогра́фія noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- словника́рство noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Uzbek
1 entries- lugʻatchilik noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Vietnamese
1 entries- từ điển học noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Welsh
2 entries- geiriaduraeth noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
- geiriadureg noun (art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
[T]here are ſeveral Species of Writing, in which a proper Degree of Hebetude is abſolutely neceſſary, as well as in other profeſſions; such as Lexicography, Index-making, and the like; [...]
Source: wiktionary
And ſuch is the fate of hapleſs lexicography, that not only darkneſs, but light, impedes and diſtreſſes it; things may be not only too little, but too much known, to be happily illuſtrated.
Source: wiktionary
Let me warn you, therefore, against that fallacious lexicography which forms new words, that undergoing the examination of political slander or intemperate zeal, are considered as having a known acception.—What is the word?—A word that should be discarded, when it is sought to affix to it another meaning than that which it bears in the cases where it is used.
Source: wiktionary
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