Synonyms for lexicon

Grammar : Noun

Spell : lek-si-kon, -kuhn

Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛk sɪˌkɒn, -kən

Définition of lexicon

Origin : c.1600, "a dictionary," from Middle French lexicon or directly from Modern Latin lexicon, from Greek lexikon (biblion) "word (book)," from neuter of lexikos "pertaining to words," from lexis "word," from legein "say" (see lecture (n.)).
Used originally of dictionaries of Greek, Syriac, Hebrew and Arabic, because these typically were in Latin and in Modern Latin lexicon, not dictionarius, was the preferred word. The modern sense of "vocabulary proper to some sphere of activity" (1640s) is a figurative extension.

noun collection of word meanings, usage

Example sentences :

This is a new word which was not in the lexicon of woman in past generations.
Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

Burns will soon be read by lexicon, even in the shire of Ayr.
Extract from : « Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland » by Daniel Turner Holmes

It is the commonest word in the lexicon, yet it always reads as a hapax legomenon.
Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes

The 1,000-word lexicon can handle the vast majority of emergencies.
Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin

Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon.
Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville

For no system of marks in a lexicon can tell one how to pronounce a word.
Extract from : « Story of My Life » by Helen Keller

There it was that he had grown up, on the missal and the lexicon.
Extract from : « Notre-Dame de Paris » by Victor Hugo

You have it in you, and in your lexicon there is no such word as fail.
Extract from : « Dorothy's Triumph » by Evelyn Raymond

Then in her offish way she asked if we were through with her lexicon.
Extract from : « Beatrice Leigh at College » by Julia Augusta Schwartz

In Buxtorf's Lexicon there is a curious derivation of the word.
Extract from : « Bible Animals; » by J. G. Wood

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