All 3 Uses of
lexicon
in
Do You Speak American?
- Whatever came out of the untutored mouths and unsharpened pencil stubs of the people—sorry, The People—was held legitimate if not sacrosanct by those new lexicon artists.†
Chpt 1 *
- One of the young aces, Jayk Goff, demonstrated some of the most challenging tricks while making comments in the snowboarders' whole new lexicon.†
Chpt 7
- Out of this new diversity has sprung a lexicon of new terms: Transgender—An umbrella term to encompass many forms of behavior, including transsexuals, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings, cross-dressers, female illusionists, gender benders, gender queens—although not limited to those definitions, and not all of those people want to be called transgender.†
Chpt 7
Definitions:
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(1)
(lexicon) a list of words used in a particular subject area or known by an individual
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More formally, lexicon may refer to a dictionary that attempts to accompany each head word with all the forms of the word used in a language. For example, a dictionary would usually list reading and reads with read, but a lexicon would also list readable, readability, and reader.