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LEXICALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lexicalize mean?
• LEXICALIZE (verb)
The verb LEXICALIZE has 1 sense:
1. make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
Familiarity information: LEXICALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it lexicalizes Past simple: lexicalized
Past participle: lexicalized
-ing form: lexicalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make or coin into a word or accept a new word into the lexicon of a language
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
lexicalise; lexicalize
Context example:
The concept expressed by German 'Gemuetlichkeit' is not lexicalized in English
Hypernyms (to "lexicalize" is one way to...):
articulate; formulate; give voice; phrase; word (put into words or an expression)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
lexicalization (the process of making a word to express a concept)
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