Meaning

4 senses
  1. (not comparable)Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.

    lexikalisch

    лекси́ческийleksíčeskij

    лекси́чнийleksýčnyj

  2. (not comparable)Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.

    слова́рныйslovárnyj

    словнико́вийslovnykóvyj

  3. (not comparable)Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word.

    a lexical verb

  4. (not comparable)Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.

    of or relating to words

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Hyponymy, antinomy and synonymy are all lexical terms.

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  2. Heavy lexical borrowing has obscured the language's true origin.

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  3. In order to unveil the international language, each lexical item should be written separately.

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  4. The lack of gender-specific words for "cousin" in English is an example of a lexical gap.

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  5. In the process of grammaticalization, an uninflected lexical word (or content word) is transformed into a grammar word (or function word).

    deBei dem Prozess der Grammatikalisierung wird ein unflektiertes lexikalisches Wort (oder Inhaltswort) in ein grammatisches Wort (oder Funktionswort) umgewandelt.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
of a language's vocabulary:
of a dictionary:
Русский
By meaning 2
of a language's vocabulary:
of a dictionary:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of a language's vocabulary:

Origin

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

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