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Lexicologist

Lexicologist \Lex`i*col"o*gist\ (l[e^]ks`[i^]*k[o^]l"[-o]*j[i^]st), n. One versed in lexicology.

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lexicologist

n. an expert at lexicology

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lexicologist

n. a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language [syn: lexicographer]

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Perhaps some twenty-first-century lexicologist, studying the Russell Islands dialect of Melanesian, will stumble on those terms and remember the months when the Russells were on the outskirts of a war and Americans drifted up on the beaches and dangled down from the sky under nylon canopies.