lexicography

Meanings

Plural: lexicographies

Noun

• the act of writing dictionaries
• The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
• The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
• A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

Related Words

lexicographer, lexicographian, lexicographic, lexicographical, lexicographically, lexicological, lexicology, lexicon, lexis