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LEXICOGRAPHY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lexicography mean?
• LEXICOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun LEXICOGRAPHY has 1 sense:
1. the act of writing dictionaries
Familiarity information: LEXICOGRAPHY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of writing dictionaries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("lexicography" is a kind of...):
authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)
Derivation:
lexicographer (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
lexicographical (of or relating to lexicography)
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