Lexicographer

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A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary.

Some famous lexicographers:

Julian Barnes (at a stretch)
Thomas Blount
Henry Bradley
Peter Bowler
Robert Burchfield
Thomas Cooper
William Craigie
Vladimir Dal
Susie Dent
Henry Watson Fowler
Isaac Kaufmann Funk
Frederick James Furnivall
Hesychius of Alexandria
A. S. Hornby
Samuel Johnson
Pierre Larousse
María Moliner (Spanish)
James Murray
Sergei Ozhegov
Charles Talbut Onions
Eric Partridge
Josette Rey-Debove
Peter Mark Roget
John Simpson
J.R.R. Tolkien
John Walker
Noah Webster
Edmund Weiner

Johnson defined a lexicographer as "a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words".

See also: List of lexicographers

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