LEXICON

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LEXICON.
1. A work of REFERENCE listing and explaining words: Henry G. Liddell & Robert Scott, Greek–English Lexicon (1843). A lexicon is usually a dictionary that deals either with a classical or scriptural language or a technical or facetious subject ( Jonathon Green, The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice, 1984). It may also, however, be a word list ( Roland Hindmarsh, The Cambridge English Lexicon, 1980) or a thematic work of lexical reference ( Tom McArthur, The Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English, 1981).

2. A term in especially American LINGUISTICS for the VOCABULARY of a language or sub-language, consisting of its stock of LEXEMES.

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