| lexicalisation | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalization |
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| lexicalization | (noun) the process of making a word to express a concept | Synonyms: lexicalisation |
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| lexicographer | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicologist |
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| lexicography | (noun) the act of writing dictionaries | - |
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| lexicologist | (noun) a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language | Synonyms: lexicographer |
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| lexicology | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language | - |
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| lexicon | (noun) a language user's knowledge of words | Synonyms: mental lexicon, vocabulary |
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| (noun) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them | Synonyms: dictionary |
| lexicostatistics | (noun) a statistical technique used in glottochronology; used to estimate how long ago different languages evolved from a common source language | - |
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| lexis | (noun) all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function | - |
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