lexicographer
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From Ancient Greek λεξικός (lexikos, “of words”), from λέξις (lexis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγειν (legein, “to speak”) + -grapher
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lexicographer (plural lexicographers)
- One who writes or compiles a dictionary.
- 1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — Samuel Johnson, lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
- 1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. — George Gordon Byron, Hints from Horace
- 1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
- To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart - Samuel Butler
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one who writes or compiles a dictionary
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