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glossographer

glossographer noun: a writer of a glossary; a commentator.

Noun

glossographer (plural glossographers)

  1. a writer of a glossary; a commentator
    • the Glossographer vpon the Decrees noteth, that the ſonne of a King may bee called King during the life of his father1613, John Hayward, Lives of the Three Norman Kings of England

Forms of glossographer

pluralglossographers

Origin of glossographer

From glosso- + -grapher.

Questions about glossographer

What does glossographer mean?
Glossographer means a writer of a glossary; a commentator.
What part of speech is glossographer?
Glossographer is a noun.
What is the plural of glossographer?
The plural of glossographer is glossographers.

Words near glossographer in the dictionary

  1. glossoepiglottidean
  2. glossogenesis
  3. glossogenetic
  4. glossogenetics
  5. glossograph
  6. glossographer
  7. glossographers
  8. glossographical
  9. glossographies
  10. glossographs
  11. glossography

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