lexicographer

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The Word of the Day for October 16 is:

lexicographer   \lek-suh-KAH-gruh-fer\   noun
     : an author or editor of a dictionary

Example sentence:
     The great lexicographer Noah Webster, who wrote the first authoritative 
dictionary of American English, was born on October 16, 1758.

Did you know?
     Happy Dictionary Day! We're celebrating with a look at a word that is dear 
to our hearts: "lexicographer." The ancient Greeks were some of the earliest 
makers of dictionaries; they used them mainly to catalog obsolete terms from 
their rich literary past. To create a word for writers of dictionaries, the 
Greeks sensibly attached the suffix "-graphos," meaning "writer," to "lexikon," 
meaning "dictionary," to form "lexikographos," the direct ancestor of the 
English "lexicographer." "Lexikon," which itself descends from the Greek 
"lexis" (meaning "word" or "speech"), also gave us "lexicon," which can mean 
either "dictionary" or "the vocabulary of a language, speaker, or subject."