Crossword-Solution: LEXICOGRAPHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lexicographer | n. | The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “LEXICOGRAPHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Compiler of a dictionary | 1 answer |
| Dictionary expert | 1 answer |
| an author or editor of a dictionary | 1 answer |
| maker of dictionary | 1 answer |
| Dictionary compiler | 2 answers |
| linguist | 6 answers |
| compiler | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LEXICOGRAPHER (5)
Colebrooke records his debt to Carey for carrying through the Serampore press the Sanskrit dictionary of Amara Sinha, the oldest native lexicographer, with an English interpretation and annotations.
The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem.
But we have a great deal to be proud of in the lifelong labors of that old lexicographer, and we must n't be ungrateful.
Add to these Swanky, called Macassar, from his partiality to that condiment, and who has varnished boots, wears white gloves on Sundays, and looks out for Miss Pinkerton's school (transferred from Chiswick to Rodwell Regis, and conducted by the nieces of the late Miss Barbara Pinkerton, the friend of our great lexicographer, upon the principles approved by him, and practised by that admirable woman,) as it passes into church.
Johnson was asked why he was not more frequently invited out; and he said, 'Because great lords and ladies do not like to have their mouths stopped.' Garrick was not in this predicament: he could amuse the company in the drawing-room by imitating the great moralist and lexicographer, and make the negro-boy in the courtyard die with laughing to see him take off the swelling airs and strut of the turkey-cock.
Quotes with LEXICOGRAPHER (3)
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward "obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsol…
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string.
A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1980).