Crossword clues for lexicographer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lexicographer \Lex`i*cog"ra*pher\ (l[e^]ks`[i^]*k[o^]g"r[.a]*f[~e]r), n. [Gr. lexikogra`fos; lexiko`n dictionary + gra`fein to write: cf. F. lexicographe. See Lexicon.] The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.
Every other author may aspire to praise; the
lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and
even this negative recompense has been yet granted to
very few.
--Johnson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. one who writes or compiles a dictionary
WordNet
n. a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language [syn: lexicologist]
Usage examples of "lexicographer".
His black servant, whose name is Francis Barber, has been pressed on board the Stag Frigate, Captain Angel, and our lexicographer is in great distress.
The thing was undoubtedly the work of an intimate friend of the Great Lexicographer, but, though there were mannerisms of style and thought which suggested Mr Boswell, I did not feel able to claim his authorship with any confidence.
She then remembered the daily increase of stiffness in his figure: and a reflection upon his patient waiting, and simpleness, and lexicographer speech to expose his minor needs, touched her unused sense of humour on the side where it is tender in women, from being motherly.
Noah Webster, editor, author, lexicographer, and staunch Federalist, declared it time to stop newspaper editors from libeling those with whom they disagreed, and to his friend Timothy Pickering wrote to urge that the new law be strictly enforced.
I told her that Elia Kazan was fifty-seven when he started with fiction and that I had published four active octogenarians in a single year, the lexicographer Eric Partridge, J.
All early and modern lexicographers give the word, which, though now obsolete, was in common use in parts of New England fifty years ago.
Philologists and lexicographers continued to nurture the Croatian language, as they have done up to the present.
Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.
Such understanding as this may belong to lexicographers and students, but not to ordinary mortals in ordinary life.
But the male lexicographers had somehow neglected to coin a word for the dislike of men.