Lexicography

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lexicography \Lex`i*cog"ra*phy\
     (l[e^]ks`[i^]*k[o^]g"r[.a]*f[y^]), 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 +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lexicography
       n : the act of writing dictionaries

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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