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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. a dictionary_webster1828, and to write.]

The act of writing a lexicon or dictionary_webster1828, or the art of composing dictionaries.

The composition or compilation of a dictionary_webster1828.

lexicography ‎(countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

The art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
(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.

art or craft of writing dictionaries

Armenian: բառարանագրություն (hy) ‎(baṙaranagrutʿyun)
Catalan: lexicografia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 詞典學 (zh), 词典学 (zh) ‎(cídiǎnxué), 辭書學 (zh), 辞书学 (zh) ‎(císhūxué), 詞典編輯, 词典编辑 ‎(cídiǎn biānjí)
Czech: lexikografie (cs) f
Danish: leksikografi
Dutch: lexicografie (nl) f
Esperanto: leksikografio
Finnish: leksikografia (fi)
French: lexicographie (fr) f
German: Lexikographie (de) f
Greek: λεξικογραφία (el) f ‎(lexikografía)
Icelandic: orðabókargerð f, orðabókagerð f
Interlingua: lexicographia
Irish: foclóireacht f
Italian: lessicografia (it) f

scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing lexical relationships and developing dictionary structures