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Answer for the clue "Dictionary creation ", 12 letters:
lexicography

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Word definitions for lexicography in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionary. 2 (context linguistics English) The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, from lexico- + -graphy . Related: Lexicographic ; lexicographical .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Again and again these feminist lexicographers refuse and indeed poke fun at the authoritative pronouncements of mainstream lexicography . ▪ Researchers within computational lexicography have attempted to exploit this style to ...

Usage examples of lexicography.

Every original language near to its source is in itself the chaos of a cyclic poem: the copiousness of lexicography and the distinctions of grammar are the works of a later age, and are merely the catalogue and the form of the creations of poetry.

Fax prompted no fewer than thirty-three suggested alternatives, mc\ uAmgfab, fays, feats, fuzz, feaze, phase, and at least two more that are unknown to lexicography: falx and phase.

The members of the Special Interest Group on Lexicography (SIGLEX), for example, strive to push ahead the state of the art of dictionary and glossary making, including even dictionaries for unwritten languages.