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JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY MURRAY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
Synonyms:
James Augustus Henry Murray; James Augustus Murray; James Murray; Murray; Sir James Augustus Henry Murray; Sir James Augustus Murray; Sir James Murray
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Instance hypernyms:
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)