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James Augustus Murray
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James Augustus Murray
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n
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Synonyms:
James Augustus Henry Murray
,
James Murray
,
Murray
,
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
,
Sir James Augustus Murray
,
Sir James Murray
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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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