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Lexis

/ˈlɛksɪs/

The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.

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📖 Definitions of "Lexis"

noun

1
The set of all words and phrases in a language; any unified subset of words from a particular language.
2
(pedagogy, TEFL) Words, collocations, and common phrases in a language; vocabulary and word combinations.
3
The vocabulary used by a writer
"In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand."

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lexis"

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Word	Definition
nexisnoun	—
vocabularynoun	The collection of words a person knows and uses.
lexiconnoun	The vocabulary of a language.
lexicologynoun	(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
languagenoun	(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
lexicographynoun	(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
syntaxnoun	A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
lexicalismnoun	The theory that grammatical information is rooted in the lexicon of a language.
defining vocabularynoun	(lexicography) A restricted set of words used to define all other terms in a dictionary.
linguistic landscapenoun	(linguistics) The totality of written language visible within a certain area.
slangologynoun	Slang lexis.
lexical semanticsnoun	(linguistics) The study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts.
lexicog.noun	Abbreviation of lexicography. [(uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.]
linguisticsnoun	The systematic and scholarly study of language.
speechlorenoun	The science, study, or knowledge of language or speech; linguistics.
languenoun	(linguistics) Language as a system rather than language in use, including the formal rules, structures, and limitations of language.
word-hoardnoun	Alternative spelling of wordhoard. [Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.]
macrolinguisticsnoun	The study of language (rather than individual languages).
corpusnoun	A collection of written or spoken texts.
wordlorenoun	(puristic, uncommon) The science, study, or knowledge of words.