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lexicon A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word ''lexicon'' derives from Greek word (), neuter of () meaning 'of or for w ...
of a language (or field of study) is its complete vocabulary. Lexicon may also refer to:


Reference works

* A
dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, p ...
* An
encyclopedic dictionary An encyclopedic dictionary typically includes many short listings, arranged alphabetically, and discussing a wide range of topics. Encyclopedic dictionaries can be general, containing articles on topics in many different fields; or they can sp ...
* A
word list A word list (or ''lexicon'') is a list of a language's lexicon (generally sorted by frequency of occurrence either by levels or as a ranked list) within some given text corpus, serving the purpose of vocabulary acquisition. A lexicon sorted by ...
* The ''
Suda The ''Suda'' or ''Souda'' (; grc-x-medieval, Σοῦδα, Soûda; la, Suidae Lexicon) is a large 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia of the ancient Mediterranean world, formerly attributed to an author called Soudas (Σούδας) or Souidas ...
'', sometimes cited as the ''Suda Lexicon'' or Suidias's ''Lexicon''


Arts and entertainment


Fiction

* ''Lexicon'' (novel), a 2013 novel by Max Barry *
The Harry Potter Lexicon The Harry Potter Lexicon is a fan-created online encyclopedia of the ''Harry Potter'' series. Overview The site was created by school librarian Steve Vander Ark. It contains detailed information for all seven published ''Harry Potter'' books. The ...
, sometimes referred to as the Lexicon * Lexicon, the home planet of ''
WordGirl ''WordGirl'' (stylized as ''W✪RD GIRL'') is an American children's Flash animated superhero television series produced by the Soup2Nuts animation unit of Scholastic Entertainment for PBS Kids. The series began as a series of shorts entitled ...
'', star of an educational TV show


Gaming

* Lexicon (game), a role-playing game using Wiki software * Lexicon Gaming Convention, board games event held in Lexington, Kentucky, USA * ''Lexicon'', a 1932 card game from
Waddingtons Waddingtons was a British manufacturer of card and board games. The company was founded by John Waddington of Leeds, England and the manager, actor and playwright Wilson Barrett, under the name ''Waddingtons Limited''. The name was changed in 1 ...
* A list of acceptable Scrabble words


Music

* ''Lexicon'' (Will Young album), 2019 * ''Lexicon'' (Isyana Sarasvati album), 2019 * Lex Icon, a stage name used by Norwegian black metal musician Stian Arnesen (or Nagash) * "Lexicon", by Neurosis from ''
Enemy of the Sun ''Enemy of the Sun'' is the fourth studio album by American avant-garde metal band Neurosis. It was originally released on Alternative Tentacles in 1993 and later reissued on Neurot Recordings in 1999. The album was reissued with new cover artwo ...
'', 1993


Buildings

* DLR Lexicon, a building in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland * Lexicon Tower, tower block near Old Street Roundabout in London


Businesses

*
Lexicon (company) Lexicon is an American company that engineers, manufactures, and markets audio equipment as a brand of Harman International Industries. The company was founded in 1971 with headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts, and offices in Salt Lake City, U ...
, an audio equipment manufacturer *
Lexicon Branding Lexicon Branding, Inc., is an American marketing firm founded in 1982 by David Placek. It focuses on selecting brand names for companies and products. The company devised the brand names Pentium, BlackBerry, PowerBook, Zune, Swiffer, Febreze, ...
, a company devoted to inventing names for products * Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company


Computing

* Lexicon (program), a text editor and word processor * Lexicon (typeface), a typeface designed by Bram de Does


Mathematics

* Lexicon (mathematics), a real number that is disjunctive to every base


See also

* Lexical (disambiguation) *
Lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoretica ...
, the art of compiling dictionaries or the study of the lexicon *
Lexicology Lexicology is the branch of linguistics that analyzes the lexicon of a specific language. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of a language that can stand on its own, and is made up of small components called morphemes and even smaller element ...
, the scientific study of individual words * Lexis (disambiguation), a noun with similar meanings * * {{disambiguation