lexicographer
ഫീല്ഡെന്
definition
noun
Contributors range from in-house lexicographers and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
a person who compiles dictionaries.
example
I bought this because I'd toyed with it for ages - the story of a 'lexicographer' who also happened to be a psychopath.
When you cannot remember what sedulous means, or you want to find out why somebody called you a hellion, you do not have to bother opening the dictionary or calling your local 'lexicographer' .
For example, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary liken the 'lexicographer' to the naturalist.
He's no empty-headed pop culture cheerleader, though - he takes a 'lexicographer' 's delight in language, and is a self-confessed history geek.
Of course, a dictionary does not represent the 'lexicographer' 's own language use.
Indeed, it is more a work of hopeful multicultural idealism than a dictionary in the 'lexicographer' 's sense.
Mathematicians have wrestled with this question (which is more complex than most laypeople would likely think), but now it turns out that 'lexicographers' have, too.
Historical 'lexicographers' , like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language.
Compensation is now a mental disease that will challenge the 'lexicographers' of medical dictionaries to define a mindset which I can only describe as compensationitis.
Contributors range from in-house 'lexicographers' and editors to consultants whose specialist subjects include science, business and finance, law, education, religion and pharmacology.
It might even be argued that the work has already been done, namely by the 'lexicographers' , and has been incorporated into the larger dictionaries of the better studied languages.
On the other hand, 'lexicographers' apparently find no evidence that this was in fact the word's origin.
That is why they have come to the attention of the 'lexicographers' .
Later 'lexicographers' were less coy than Johnson.
These eminent 'lexicographers' reckon that the golden days of literacy have past.
As for our ever-expanding vocabulary, 'lexicographers' cannot data mine the information tsunami fast enough to record each new tech term entering the mainstream.
Once we have secured exclusive rights to the word, the Minister for Education should seek an audience with the 'lexicographers' at the Oxford English Dictionary with a view to getting the word entered into the dictionary.
Ghost words are created accidentally by 'lexicographers' , and when they are exposed they generally fade away.
Webster's 'lexicographers' thus might say that because a residence can be a ‘business establishment,’ a residence can be viewed as a ‘retail pet store’ if dogs are sold there.
In both instances, Hebrew and English dictionaries, the 'lexicographers' have paid no attention to the insights and distinctions of medical anthropologists.
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