Usually means: Art and science of dictionary-making.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word lexicography:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lexicography: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lexicography: Merriam-Webster
  3. lexicography: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lexicography: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lexicography: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lexicography: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lexicography, lexicography: Wordnik
  8. lexicography: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lexicography: Wiktionary
  10. lexicography: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lexicography: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lexicography: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lexicography, lexicography: Dictionary.com
  14. Lexicography: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lexicography: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lexicography: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lexicography: Rhymezone
  18. Lexicography: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lexicography: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. lexicography: FreeDictionary.org
  21. lexicography: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lexicography: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lexicography: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lexicography: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See lexicographic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
noun:  (uncountable, linguistics) 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.
noun:  (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

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