SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY

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• SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY (noun)
  The noun SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY has 1 sense:

1. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)

  Familiarity information: SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY used as a noun is very rare.

• SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY (noun)

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Meaning:

Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

James Augustus Henry Murray; James Augustus Murray; James Murray; Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Murray; Sir James Murray

Instance hypernyms:

lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

philologist; philologue (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)