LEXIS

Lexis

In linguistics, a lexis is the total word-stock or lexicon having items of lexical, rather than grammatical, meaning.

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lexis

Noun

  1. The set of all words and phrases in a language.
  2. The vocabulary used by a writer
    In this broadsheet newspaper, the reporter uses a complicated and formal lexis which I find hard to understand sometimes.


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