lexis
noun/ˈleksɪs/
/ˈleksɪs/
[uncountable] (linguistics)- all the words and phrases of a particular language synonym vocabularyTopics Languagec2Word Origin1950s (denoting the wording in a piece of writing): from Greek, literally ‘word’, from legein ‘speak’.
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