Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The art or science of compiling lexicons or wordbooks; the scientific exposition of the forms, pronunciation, signification, and history of words.
  • noun The act or process of making a dictionary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
  • noun linguistics The scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of writing dictionaries

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[lexico(n) + –graphy.]

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lexico- + -graphy

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