lexicography

1. (uncountable)The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.

   Lexikographie

   лексикогра́фияleksikográfija

   лексикогра́фіяleksykohráfija, словника́рствоslovnykárstvo

   the act of writing dictionaries

2. (uncountable)The scholarly discipline of analysing 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.

3. (countable)A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

1. He wrote a thesis on Berber lexicography.

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