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

synonym: lexicographer.

Roget 492: scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman^†, professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist^†; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister^†; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer^†; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.], literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi^†, Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue^†; Mezzofanti^†, admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.    bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac^†; bluestocking, bas-bleu [Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].    learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.    antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.    sage etc. (wise man) 500.    pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr.    Pangloss; pantologist^†, criminologist.    schoolboy etc. (learner) 541.    ... show more

Roget 562: word, term, vocable; name etc. 564; phrase etc. 566; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech etc. (grammar) 567; ideophone^†.    dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance; thesaurus; gradus [Lat.], delectus [Lat.].    etymology, derivation; glossology^†, terminology orismology^†; paleology etc. (philology) 560^†.    lexicography; glossographer etc. (scholar) 492; lexicologist, verbarian^†.    ... show more

Dutch: lexicoloog