n.
Pronunciation: ' lek-s ə - ˌ kän also -k ə n
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural lex · i · ca \ -k ə \ or lexicons
Etymology: Late Greek lexikon, from neuter of lexikos of words, from Greek lexis word, speech, from legein to say ― more at LEGEND
Date: 1580
1 : a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : DICTIONARY
2 a : the vocabulary of a language, an individual speaker or group of speakers, or a subject b : the total stock of morphemes in a language
3 : REPERTOIRE , INVENTORY