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lexical

/ˈlɛksɪkəl/

lexicaladjective

more lexical

Comp.

most lexical

Super.

/ˈlɛksɪkəl/

Translations

лексический

The lexical analysis of the text revealed several interesting patterns.

Лексический анализ текста выявил несколько интересных закономерностей.

Definitions

Relating to the words or vocabulary of a language.

The dictionary provides a comprehensive lexical analysis of the English language.

Belonging to the class of content words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) in a language, as distinguished from function words such as articles and prepositions.

In the phrase "the quick brown fox", only "quick", "brown", and "fox" are lexical items.

Synonyms

lexicalnoun

lexicals

/ˈlɛksɪkəl/

Used in linguistics to denote a lexical item or word; occurs mainly in academic contexts.

Definitions

A lexical item; a single word or vocabulary unit regarded in terms of its meaning and function in language.

In the corpus, each lexical is tagged with its part of speech.

Synonyms

vocabulary item

lexical item