LEXICOGRAPHY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of writing dictionaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("lexicography" is a kind of...):

authorship; composition; penning; writing (the act of creating written works)

Derivation:

lexicographer (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)

lexicographical (of or relating to lexicography)

Credits