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Lexicography

/ˌlɛksɪˈkɒɡɹəfi/

The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

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noun
  1. 1

    The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

  2. 2

    The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

  3. 3

    A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

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