A knowledge base about some subset of words in the vocabulary of a natural language One component of a lexicon is a terminological ontology whose concept types represent the word senses in the lexicon The lexicon may also contain additional information about the syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and usage of the words Besides conventional dictionaries, lexicons include large collections of words and word senses, such as WordNet from Princeton University and EDR from the Japan Electronic Dictionary Research Institute, Ltd Other examples include classification schemes, such as the Library of Congress subject headings or the Medical Subject Headers (MeSH)
This is an alphabetically arranged book setting forth the meanings and etymology of the words of a language
a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
A compilation of words and their meanings in a book (dictionary) or stored in a person's memory (vocabulary) We each have our own personal lexicon or mental dictionary
the entire set of morphemes in a given language or in a given person's linguistic repertoire
The lexicon of a particular subject is all the terms associated with it. The lexicon of a person or group is all the words they commonly use. the lexicon of management Chocolate equals sin in most people's lexicon