Lexicographer

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A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Samuel Johnson, himself a lexicographer, defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words".

Famous lexicographers include:

• Julian Barnes (at a stretch)
• Ambrose Bierce (at a stretch)
• Thomas Blount
• Henry Bradley
• Peter Bowler
• Robert Burchfield
• Thomas Cooper
• William Craigie
• Vladimir Dal
• Susie Dent
• Henry Watson Fowler
• Isaac Kaufmann Funk
• Frederick James Furnivall
• Hesychius of Alexandria
• A. S. Hornby
• Samuel Johnson
• Pierre Larousse
• María Moliner (Spanish)
• James Murray
• Sergei Ozhegov
• Charles Talbut Onions
• Eric Partridge
• Josette Rey-Debove
• Peter Mark Roget
• John Simpson
• J.R.R. Tolkien
• John Walker
• Noah Webster
• Edmund Weiner
• Delfín Carbonell Basset

See also: List of lexicographers