The word lexicon designates a wordbook, but it also has a special abstract meaning among linguists, referring to the body of separable structural units of which the language is made up. |
Besides giving the attendees enough time to read the display boards the DMFA scanned each package with results for a wordbook people used as a tool for the voting. |
This is the rare wordbook that can actually spur ideas and conversation and the spontaneous telling of stories. |
In the novels and plays of that time a coat was a very important part of a wordbook, for Anna Karenina and Three Sisters. |
Nothing is quite so boring as reading a wordbook aloud to a toddler for the third or 13th time. |
To be sure I had the letters right, I consulted the Urban Dictionary, an online wordbook to which users post definitions of slang. |