noun. One who writes, compiles, or edits a dictionary.

noun. A compiler of a lexicon or dictionary; one employed in the making of a vocabulary or wordbook of a language, and giving definitions, with or without other explanatory matter, in the same or another language.

noun. The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary.

noun. one who writes or compiles a dictionary

noun. a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

"We now know that the duty of the lexicographer is to record and not to criticize, that refined speech and elegant speech are the delusions of a mistaken optimism, and that the only people who now speak English with any approach to historical correctness are the few surviving agricultural laborers who are old enough to have escaped the devastating effects of the Elementary Education Act. Johnson's Dictionary went far to accomplish, in the eighteenth century, what the Italian and French Academies had unsuccessfully attempted in the seventeenth."

lexicography  lexicologist  lexicon  

compiler  linguist  linguistic scientist  

Craigie  Florio  Fowler  Johnson  Larousse  

autobiographer  biographer  choreographer  cinematographer  crystallographer  

archæologist  caricaturist  catechist  circumambulation  controversialist  

allegorist  annotator  author  cicerone  clarifier