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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

That is according to responses to a tongue-in-cheek tweet from Countdown wordsmith and lexicographer Susie Dent.

From BBC May 18, 2023

“Watching that spell-off, you got a real sense of the actual work of preparing for the Bee,” said Kory Stamper, a lexicographer and the author of “Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries.”

From New York Times Jun. 2, 2022

But no lexicographer could carry out Macdonald’s mandate.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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