Associations to the word «Lexicography»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

LEXICOGRAPHY, noun. The act of writing dictionaries.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats