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lexicographists

lexicographists is the plural of lexicographist.

Meaning of lexicographist

Noun

lexicographist (plural lexicographists)

  1. (archaic) A student specialising in the discipline of lexicography; lexicographer.
    • Whatever the a priori grammarian might do, the lexicographist, at any rate, ought to have thought it antecedently probably that, here and there, a construction with which a given idea, not expressed by it, was naturally associated, would come in time to be understood and used as expressing that...1889, William Gardner Hale The Cum‐Constructions, John Wilson and Son; Chapter VII, page #247

Questions about lexicographists

What is lexicographists the plural of?
Lexicographists is the plural of lexicographist.

Words near lexicographists in the dictionary

  1. lexicographic orders
  2. lexicographical
  3. lexicographically
  4. lexicographies
  5. lexicographist
  6. lexicographists
  7. lexicography
  8. lexicologic
  9. lexicological
  10. lexicologically
  11. lexicologies

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