Noun: lexicographer
| Singular | lexicographer |
| Plural | lexicographers |
Sample Sentences
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Lexico′grapher. […] A writer of dictionaries; a harmleſs drudge, that buſies himſelf in tracing the original, and detailing the ſignification of words. [[1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Lexico′grapher”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:]
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Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. [1811, George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace:]
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The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. [1860, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica:]
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Would-be lexicographers beware: this job comes with a health warning – you will never look at words in the same way again. [2007 May 10, Emily Ford, “How do I become… a lexicographer?”, in The Times, London:]
Nouns inflected like lexicographer
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French lexicographe + -er, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -grapher. See: French Nouns '
lexicographe'.
Verbs referencing "lexicographer"
Dutch Nouns
lexicograaf, German Nouns
Lexikograf, French Nouns
lexicographe.