Example sentences for: lexicography

How can you use “lexicography” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Especially noteworthy was the 1972 International Conference on Lexicography in English, a landmark event that attracted foreign as well as American scholars and practitioners.

  • Computational Lexicography

  • The 1963 and 1980 books are both fine dictionaries, and a book that combines the best of those, carefully re-edited, with some solid, new lexicography based on the BDC , the World Book Dictionary , and the substantial Barnhart files, must be a high-quality dictionary.

  • Beginning when the Competition was terminated, we established the VERBATIM Award, for the Pursuit of Scholarship in Lexicography.

  • had much to do with the application of modern linguistic theory to lexicography; the list of publications he has edited includes such landmarks as the Dictionary of American English (University of Chicago Press), the Thorndike-Barnhart School Dictionaries series (Scott Foresman; the top-selling school dictionaries in the U.S.), the American College Dictionary (Random House), the New Century Cyclopedia of Names (Appleton-Century-Crofts), and the World Book Dictionary (little known, sadly, but one of the best unabridged dictionaries still being kept current).


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