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lexicographer

/lek-si-kog-ruh-fer/US // ˌlɛk sɪˈkɒg rə fər //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Giles Jacob died; an English law writer, biographer, and lexicographer.

  • Learned lexicographer, permit me to remark that your translation is incorrect: faselus, faseolus cannot mean haricot.

  • Dr. Webster, with all his great merits as a lexicographer, loved to meddle with the language too much.

  • After the death of the late Dean Scott, the great lexicographer, it was decided to raise a memorial to him in his cathedral.

  • William Kenrick, in 1773, seems to have been the first English lexicographer to denounce this pronunciation.