a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
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Lexicon \Lex"i*con\ (l[e^]ks"[i^]*k[o^]n), n. [Gr. lexiko`n (sc. bibli`on), neut. of lexiko`s of or belonging to words, fr. le`xis a speaking, speech, a way of speaking, a single word or phrase, fr. le`gein to say, to speak. See {Legend}.] A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
Nationalism is prominent in his lexicon of dangerous words.
Before isolation, the eastern bloc and China were no-go zones and the Pacific Dragons had barely entered the business lexicon.
Mr. Syrek maintains a rigid lexicon for his litter.
And Howard Baker of Tennessee, the former Senate Republican leader and Reagan's last chief of staff, coined an adjective _ "Darmanesque" _ which is now part of Washington's lexicon.
Which apparently is not in the said lexicon.
In the ANC lexicon, nationalisation has been replaced by talk of pursuing active anti-trust policies to curb monopolies and reduce the domination of the economy by a few large groups.
There are more gratuitous coups de cinema per minute than there are quills per inch upon a fretful porcupine. Remaking the 1962 hoodlum-at-large thriller that starred Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum, Scorsese provides a lexicon of visual ingenuities.
Targeting is no doubt a firm fixture in the NHS lexicon of useful jargon. Still, Spiers did partially redeem himself, by exposing the rotten conditions in his trust's hospitals.