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单词 lexicographer
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Definition of lexicographer in English:

lexicographer

noun ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡrəfəˌlɛksəˈkɑɡrəfər
  • A person who compiles dictionaries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As for our ever-expanding vocabulary, lexicographers cannot data mine the information tsunami fast enough to record each new tech term entering the mainstream.
    • Of course, a dictionary does not represent the lexicographer's own language use.
    • Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
    • When you cannot remember what sedulous means, or you want to find out why somebody called you a hellion, you do not have to bother opening the dictionary or calling your local lexicographer.
    • Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
    • Compensation is now a mental disease that will challenge the lexicographers of medical dictionaries to define a mindset which I can only describe as compensationitis.
    • It might even be argued that the work has already been done, namely by the lexicographers, and has been incorporated into the larger dictionaries of the better studied languages.
    • Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
    • On the other hand, lexicographers apparently find no evidence that this was in fact the word's origin.
    • Webster's lexicographers thus might say that because a residence can be a ‘business establishment,’ a residence can be viewed as a ‘retail pet store’ if dogs are sold there.
    • Indeed, it is more a work of hopeful multicultural idealism than a dictionary in the lexicographer's sense.
    • These eminent lexicographers reckon that the golden days of literacy have past.
    • That is why they have come to the attention of the lexicographers.
    • Later lexicographers were less coy than Johnson.
    • In both instances, Hebrew and English dictionaries, the lexicographers have paid no attention to the insights and distinctions of medical anthropologists.
    • Mathematicians have wrestled with this question (which is more complex than most laypeople would likely think), but now it turns out that lexicographers have, too.
    • I bought this because I'd toyed with it for ages - the story of a lexicographer who also happened to be a psychopath.
    • For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the lexicographer to the naturalist.
    • He's no empty-headed pop culture cheerleader, though - he takes a lexicographer's delight in language, and is a self-confessed history geek.
    • Ghost words are created accidentally by lexicographers, and when they are exposed they generally fade away.

Rhymes

autobiographer, bibliographer, biographer, cartographer, choreographer, cinematographer, crystallographer, geographer, Hagiographa, hagiographer, iconographer, lithographer, oceanographer, palaeographer (US paleographer), photographer, pornographer, radiographer, stenographer, topographer, typographer
 
 

Definition of lexicographer in US English:

lexicographer

nounˌleksəˈkäɡrəfərˌlɛksəˈkɑɡrəfər
  • A person who compiles dictionaries.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Later lexicographers were less coy than Johnson.
    • It might even be argued that the work has already been done, namely by the lexicographers, and has been incorporated into the larger dictionaries of the better studied languages.
    • He's no empty-headed pop culture cheerleader, though - he takes a lexicographer's delight in language, and is a self-confessed history geek.
    • Indeed, it is more a work of hopeful multicultural idealism than a dictionary in the lexicographer's sense.
    • Mathematicians have wrestled with this question (which is more complex than most laypeople would likely think), but now it turns out that lexicographers have, too.
    • Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
    • Ghost words are created accidentally by lexicographers, and when they are exposed they generally fade away.
    • Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
    • Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the lexicographers at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
    • On the other hand, lexicographers apparently find no evidence that this was in fact the word's origin.
    • Of course, a dictionary does not represent the lexicographer's own language use.
    • As for our ever-expanding vocabulary, lexicographers cannot data mine the information tsunami fast enough to record each new tech term entering the mainstream.
    • These eminent lexicographers reckon that the golden days of literacy have past.
    • I bought this because I'd toyed with it for ages - the story of a lexicographer who also happened to be a psychopath.
    • Compensation is now a mental disease that will challenge the lexicographers of medical dictionaries to define a mindset which I can only describe as compensationitis.
    • In both instances, Hebrew and English dictionaries, the lexicographers have paid no attention to the insights and distinctions of medical anthropologists.
    • That is why they have come to the attention of the lexicographers.
    • For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the lexicographer to the naturalist.
    • When you cannot remember what sedulous means, or you want to find out why somebody called you a hellion, you do not have to bother opening the dictionary or calling your local lexicographer.
    • Webster's lexicographers thus might say that because a residence can be a ‘business establishment,’ a residence can be viewed as a ‘retail pet store’ if dogs are sold there.
 
 
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