Definitions for lexicographer

lexicographer lex·i·cog·ra·pher

Spelling: [lek-si-kog-ruh-fer]
IPA: /ˌlɛk sɪˈkɒg rə fər/

Lexicographer is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 28 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 31 points.

You can make 1132 anagrams from letters in lexicographer (aceeghiloprrx).

Definitions for lexicographer

noun

  1. a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary.

Origin of lexicographer

1650-60; Late Greek lexikográph(os) (see lexicon, -graph) + -er1

Examples for lexicographer

Joseph Emerson Worcester, a celebrated American lexicographer.

He had been a lexicographer and an associate magazine editor.

There is no obvious vulgarity in the lexicographer's definitions of the word "sex."

He was Noah Webster, then at the beginning of his stormy career as a lexicographer.

lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge."

What words to come from the mouth of the great moralist and lexicographer!

Man has been defined by some lexicographer as a “cooking animal.”

Yes, that's Samuel—I'm glad you didn't say Ben was the lexicographer.

It is as a lexicographer, however, that Barker is chiefly known.

A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Word Value for lexicographer
Scrable

28

Words with friends

31

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