Lexicographer

Lexicographer

A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Samuel Johnson, himself a lexicographer, defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words". However Jonathon Green, in "Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made" (1996) suggests that this was a piece of eighteenth century politeness, and that a clearer indication of Johnson's view is given a little later in the same text where he says "Though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he had not . . . studied the lexicons, yet he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman competently wise in his mother dialect only".Fact|date=September 2008

Notable lexicographers

*Adam Jack Aitken (Scottish)
*Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew)
*Brian A. Garner (Law Dictionary)
*Francis Bacon
*Katherine Barber
*Julian Barnes
*Grant Barrett
*Erin McKean
*Henning Bergenholtz (Danish)
*Ambrose Bierce
*Thomas Blount
*Henry Bradley
*Peter Bowler
*Robert Burchfield
*Thomas Cooper
*William Craigie
*Vladimir Dal
*Tomás de Bhaldraithe
*Susie Dent
*Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira
*Henry Watson Fowler
*Isaac Kaufmann Funk
*Frederick James Furnivall
*Orin Hargraves
*Hesychius of Alexandria
*Gunapala malalasekera
*A. S. Hornby
*Antônio Houaiss
*Samuel Johnson
*Emmanuel Kriaras
*Władysław Kopaliński (Polish)
*Pierre Larousse
*María Moliner (Spanish)
*James Murray
*Sandro Nielsen (Danish)
*Niall Ó Dónaill
*Sergei Ozhegov
*Francisco J. Santamaría (Spanish)
*Charles Talbut Onions
*Eric Partridge
* [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josette_Rey-Debove Josette Rey-Debove] (French)
*Peter Mark Roget
*John Simpson
*J.R.R. Tolkien
*Laurence Urdang.
*Magdi Wahba (Egyptian)
*John Walker
*Noah Webster
*Edmund Weiner
*Harischandra Wijayatunga (Sinhala)
*Delfín Carbonell Basset (Spanish and English)
*G Venkatasubbaiah - Kannada
*Yousef Al-Bader (Kuwaiti)
*Sima Guang (Chinese)


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  • Lexicographer — Lex i*cog ra*pher (l[e^]ks [i^]*k[o^]g r[.a]*f[ e]r), n. [Gr. lexikogra fos; lexiko n dictionary + gra fein to write: cf. F. lexicographe. See {Lexicon}.] The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. [1913 Webster] Every other author may… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lexicographer — 1650s, from Fr. lexicographe lexicographer, from Gk. lexikographos, from lexikon wordbook (see LEXICON (Cf. lexicon)) + graphos writer, from graphein to write (see GRAPHY (Cf. graphy)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • lexicographer — [lek΄sə käg′rə fər] n. [LGr lexikographos < Gr lexikon, LEXICON + graphein, to write: see GRAPHIC] a person who writes or compiles a dictionary …   English World dictionary

  • lexicographer — lexicography ► NOUN ▪ the practice of compiling dictionaries. DERIVATIVES lexicographer noun lexicographic adjective …   English terms dictionary

  • lexicographer — noun Etymology: Late Greek lexikographos, from lexikon + Greek graphos writer, from graphein to write Date: 1658 an author or editor of a dictionary …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • lexicographer — a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge (after Samuel Johnson s Dictionary of the English Language, 1755), but also an excellent way to learn more about a specialised topic such as ichthyology …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • lexicographer — /lek si kog reuh feuhr/, n. a writer, editor, or compiler of a dictionary. [1650 60; < LGk lexikográph(os) (see LEXICON, GRAPH) + ER1] * * * …   Universalium

  • lexicographer — noun One who writes or compiles a dictionary. See Also: lexicography, lexicon, lexicologist …   Wiktionary

  • lexicographer — Synonyms and related words: allegorist, annotator, cicerone, clarifier, commentator, critic, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, dialectician, diaskeuast, dragoman, editor, emendator, emender …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lexicographer — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. dictionary writer, definer, etymologist, philologist, polyglot, dictionary maker, dictionarist, lexicologist, lexicographist, glossarian, glossarist, glossologist, glossographer, glottologist, philologer, vocabulist,… …   English dictionary for students

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