Associations to the word «Lexicalize»
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Wiktionary
LEXICALIZE, verb. (transitive) To convert to a single lexical unit, as a group of words with meaning beyond their parts.
Dictionary definition
LEXICALIZE, verb. Make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language; "The concept expressed by German `Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English".
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.