Dictionary

wordlist en · NOUN

Etymology

From word + list.

Meanings

1. (especially) A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
   • This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961. […] Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala. 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022, pages 1, 25:
   • For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education. 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:
2. The section of a style guide that lists particular words and terms, arranged alphabetically, to show for each one the preferred orthographic styling (e.g., hyphenation, spelling variant), as well as any usage prescription to be enforced about its usage.

Forms

Relateds

lexicon · wordfinding · terminography · wordbook · glossary · terminology

Translations (15)

hy բառացանկ (collection of all words from a particular source) · de Wörterliste (collection of all words from a particular source) · hu szójegyzék (collection of all words from a particular source) · fi sanalista (collection of all words from a particular source) · vo vödalised (collection of all words from a particular source) · de Wortliste (collection of all words from a particular source) · nds Wöörlist (collection of all words from a particular source) · hu szószedet (collection of all words from a particular source) · nds Woortlist (collection of all words from a particular source) · nl woordenlijst (collection of all words from a particular source) · hu szólista (collection of all words from a particular source) · pl hasłownik (collection of all words from a particular source) · az sözlük (collection of all words from a particular source) · ga foclóirín (collection of all words from a particular source) · ru сло́вник (collection of all words from a particular source)