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lexicographer

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


NOUN
dictionary editor
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On a recent weekday, the country’s leading legal lexicographer was ensconced among the 4,500 some-odd dictionaries that fill his Dallas home, revising the entry for the adjective “calculated” ahead of Black’s 13th Edition.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025

“The further back in history, the less we can find Black people having agency over how we’re written about,” said Bianca Jenkins, a lexicographer working on the project.

From Seattle Times • May 27, 2023

Michael Rundell, a linguist and lexicographer - now mostly retired - has been a dictionary editor since 1980.

From BBC • May 18, 2023

Bernard Cerquiglini, a lexicographer at Larousse, told the newspaper Le Figaro that “pronouns have not changed since the fourth century.”

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2021

But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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