lexicography

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lex=i=cog=ra=phy

CIDE DICTIONARY

lexicography, n. [Cf. F. lexicographie.].

 The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries; as, with so many words lexicography can be interesting in parts but at length is rather tedious labor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lexicography, n. the compiling of dictionaries.

Derivative

lexicographer n. lexicographic adj. lexicographical adj. lexicographically adv.

THESAURUS

lexicography

criticism, cryptanalysis, cryptography, cryptology, diagnostics, epigraphy, exegetics, glossography, hermeneutics, lexicology, lexigraphy, literary criticism, metoposcopy, oneirology, onomasiology, onomastics, onomatology, paleography, pathognomy, physiognomics, physiognomy, semantics, semasiology, semeiology, semeiotics, symptomatology, textual criticism, tropology

ROGET THESAURUS

lexicography

Word

N word, term, vocable, name, phrase, root, etymon, derivative, part of speech, ideophone, dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary, index, concordance, thesaurus, gradus, delectus, etymology, derivation, glossology, terminology orismology, paleology, lexicography, glossographer, lexicologist, verbarian, verbal, literal, titular, nominal, conjugate, paronymous, derivative, verbally, verbatim, the artillery of words.