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a person who writes, compiles, or edits dictionaries
A lexicographer records how speakers actually use a word as well as its history.
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· a person who writes,...
dictionary makerdictionary editor
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lexicographers
Etymology
From French lexicographe, based on Ancient Greek lexikos ("of words") + graphein ("to write"), with the English agent suffix -er. Literally, a lexicographer is a writer about words.