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Lexicographer

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A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Some famous lexicographers:

  • Julian Barnes (at a stretch)
  • Thomas Blount
  • Henry Bradley
  • Peter Bowler
  • Robert Burchfield
  • Thomas Cooper
  • William Craigie
  • Vladimir Dal
  • Susie Dent
  • Henry Watson Fowler
  • Isaac Kaufmann Funk
  • Frederick James Furnivall
  • Hesychius of Alexandria
  • A. S. Hornby
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Pierre Larousse
  • María Moliner (Spanish)
  • James Murray
  • Sergei Ozhegov
  • Charles Talbut Onions
  • Eric Partridge
  • Josette Rey-Debove
  • Peter Mark Roget
  • John Simpson
  • J.R.R. Tolkien
  • John Walker
  • Noah Webster
  • Edmund Weiner

Johnson defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words".

The word lexicographer appears in most dictionaries, even quite small ones. Any student of human nature will find this unsurprising.

See also: List of lexicographers


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