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JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY
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• JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY (noun)
The noun JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY has 1 sense:
1. Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Familiarity information: JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY used as a noun is very rare.
• JAMES AUGUSTUS MURRAY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
James Augustus Henry Murray; James Augustus Murray; James Murray; Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Murray; Sir James Murray
Instance hypernyms:
lexicographer; lexicologist (a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language)
philologist; philologue (a humanist specializing in classical scholarship)
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