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- Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography 17 minutes
- Definition summary
- A dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on: Nausicaa would precede Hecuba, which would precede orca; influenza would precede cab, and so on.
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Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography 17 minutes

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Meaning
- [Noun]
- A dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on: Nausicaa would precede Hecuba, which would precede orca; influenza would precede cab, and so on.
- A dictionary that lists words under the concepts they describe.
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