| 单词 | dictionary-maker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdictionary-maker dictionary-maker n. a lexicographer. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [noun] > lexicographer dictionary-maker1567 dictionarist1617 lexicographer1658 word-catcher1659 dictionary writer1742 dictionarian1797 lexicographista1843 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast iii. xxv. f. 322v Neither therin wil I vse any peremptory challenge, but am content to stand to the iudgment of your nigh neighbours in the famous schole of Winchester, or if ye wil, of M. Cooper the dictionary maker, better acquaynted with these matters, then perchaunce your self are. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 187 Writers of Travels, like Dictionary-Makers, are sunk into Oblivion by the Weight and Bulk of those who come after, and therefore lie uppermost. 1882 E. A. Freeman in Longman's Mag. 1 97 Did anybody, even a dictionary-maker, really fancy that the last three letters of ‘neighbour’ had anything in common with the last three letters of ‘honour’? 1998 S. Winchester Surgeon of Crowthorne v. 89 The achievements of the great dictionary-makers of England's seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were prodigious indeed. < as lemmas |
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