Definitions for Lexis

Lexis lex·is

Spelling: [lek-sis]
IPA: /ˈlɛk sɪs/

Lexis is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in Lexis (eilsx).

Definitions for Lexis

noun

  1. the vocabulary of a language, as distinct from its grammar; the total stock of words and idiomatic combinations of them in a language; lexicon.

Origin of Lexis

1955-60; Greek léxis speech, diction, word, text, equivalent to lég(ein) to speak, recount (akin to lógos account, word, Latin legere to read; see logos, Examples for Lexis

For in the view of the Greeks the words (lexis) were an integral part of the whole composition.

Porson was accustomed, meanly enough, to ridicule the Greek lexis of this ode; which was to break a fly upon the wheel.

But there was a separate dispute far less notorious as to the quality of the lexis.

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