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English Dictionary: lexicon by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lexicon
n
  1. a language user's knowledge of words [syn: vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexicon]
  2. a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
    Synonym(s): dictionary, lexicon
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Lexicon \Lex"i*con\ (l[ecr]ks"[icr]*k[ocr]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.
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