Meaning

8 senses
  1. The vocabulary of a language.

    Lexikon, Wortschatz

    слова́рьslovárʹ, лексико́нleksikón, ле́ксикаléksika

    a language user's knowledge of words

  2. A dictionary that includes or focuses on lexemes.

  3. A dictionary of Classical Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic.

    слова́рь лексе́мslovárʹ leksém, лексико́нleksikón

  4. The lexicology of a programming language. (Usually called lexical structure.)

  5. (rare)Any dictionary.

    Lexikon

    лексико́нleksikón, слова́рьslovárʹ

  6. The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge.)

    Wortschatz

    лексико́нleksikón, запа́с словzapás slov, лекси́ческий запа́сleksíčeskij zapás

  7. A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.

    the baseball lexicon

  8. A set of vocabulary specific to a certain subject.

    A list thereof.

    a baseball lexicon

Examples

9 sentences
  1. The literary lexicon has many new words.

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  2. Neither the lexicon nor the pattern-book of English is closed.

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  3. I feel I need a whole new lexicon, as my language fails me.

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  4. There's more specific lexicon.

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  5. This is a universal lexicon.

    deDas ist ein Universallexikon.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
vocabulary of a language:
dictionary of lexemes:
vocabulary used by an individual:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
vocabulary of a language:

Origin

Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (le

Through Middle French or directly from New Latin lexicon, from Byzantine Greek λεξικόν (lexikón, “a lexicon, a dictionary”), ellipsis from Ancient Greek λεξικὸν βιβλίον (lexikòn biblíon, literally “a book of words”), from λεξικός (lexikós, “of words”), from λέξις (léxis, “a saying, speech, word”), from λέγω (légō, “to speak”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather, collect”).

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Forms

plural: lexica / lexicons
Singularlexicon
Plurallexica / lexicons

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
wordbookglossaryword-hoardword-stock
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lexicon — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto