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单词 lexicon
释义 lex·i·con
\ˈleksəˌkän; -sə̇kən, -sēkən\ noun
(plural lexi·ca \-_kə\ ; or lexicons)
Etymology: Late Greek lexikon, from neuter of lexikos of words, from Greek lexis word, speech (from legein to speak) + -ikos -ic — more at legend
1. : a book containing an alphabetical or other systematic arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them and their definitions : dictionary, wordbook
 < for the making of the great lexicon of the Greek language — Times Literary Supplement >
2. : the vocabulary of a language, of an individual speaker, of a set of documents, of a body of speech, of a subject, or of an occupational or other group
 < in her financial lexicon, five cents was as valuable as five dollars — Calder Willingham >
 < the realization that Marxism is not a complete lexicon of progress — New Republic >
 < the missile … will become more and more important in the whole lexicon of war — H.W.Baldwin >
3. : compendium, account, record
 < the lexicon of human struggle, through which she had searched to decipher a meaning, dissolved for her and floated away — Heln Howe >
 < in the bright lexicon of LP, I know of no other pair of standard symphonies … so essentially satisfying — Irving Kolodin >
4. : the total stock of morphemes in a language
 < linguistic classifications established on the basis of lexicon (as against those based on grammar) are more apt to prove right and to be demonstrable — N.A.McQuown >
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