lexicographer

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

From French lexicographe + -er, from Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”). By surface analysis, lexico- + -grapher.

[305] The worthy Lexicographer left us to-day. — The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford, Walter Scott
[11] =Andrés Bello.= A Venezuelan philologist and lexicographer. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
The friend of the Lexicographer had plenty of information to give. — Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

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