lexicographer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who writes, compiles, or edits dictionaries

   A lexicographer records how speakers actually use a word as well as its history.

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.

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