lexicography
noun
the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries.
lexicographic
-
a word derived from
lexicography.
Example Sentences
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A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021 Word of the Year.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2022
Webster’s Third represented only the death of lexicographic gatekeeping.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2018
In 1982 a new boss shocked the then-editor with a plan to computerise the dictionary’s ways: both the lexicographic work itself, with digital research files, and its outcome, an OED on compact disc.
From Economist ● Oct. 27, 2016
More is at stake here than mere lexicographic correctness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2015
For this there is one sufficient justification, to wit: that the present infinitive is the form in which a Latin or a Greek root is always given in Webster and other received lexicographic authorities.
From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton
