Noun

(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.

* 1949 Journal of Theological Studies

The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.

(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.

Noun

(-)

(linguistics, lexicography) The study of lexicography

*{{quote-book, 1986, Robert Ilson, Lexicography: an emerging international profession, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=QUW8AAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA101, page=101

, passage=Metalexicography can be divided into five fields of interest; the first is lexicographic theory

*{{quote-book, 1988, Ladislav Zgusta et al., t

Lexicography today: an annotated bibliography of the theory of lexicography citation , passage=This is a bibliography of works that deal with the theory, methods, and procedures of lexicography (in short, with what is called in French and German metalexicography ) }}