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LEXICALIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they lexicalize ... he / she / it lexicalizes
Past simple: lexicalized
Past participle: lexicalized
-ing form: lexicalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
Example:
The concept expressed by German 'Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English
Synonyms:
lexicalise; lexicalize
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "lexicalize" is one way to...):
articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
lexicalization (the process of making a word to express a concept)
