lexicographist

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lexicographist

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From lexicography + -ist.

noun 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 idea

    Similar: dictionarian, dictionarist, lexicographer

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@misc{lexicographist_2026,
  title = {lexicographist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lexicographist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}