Lexicographer vs Vocabulist - What's the difference?
lexicographer | vocabulist |
one who writes or compiles a dictionary
* 1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — , lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
* 1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. — , Hints from Horace
* 1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — , Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
* To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart -