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A lexicon is usually a list of words together with additional word-specific information, i.e., a Dictionary . ''Lexicon'' is a word of Greek origin (''λεξικόν'') meaning Vocabulary . When linguists study the lexicon, they study such things as what words are, how the vocabulary in a language is structured, how people use and store words, how they learn words, the history and evolution of words, types of relationships between words as well as how words were created. The term is also sometimes used in the title of an Encyclopedic Dictionary or an Encyclopedia , especially for 19th Century works and those written in German (''lexikon'').
Furthermore an individual's ''lexical knowledge'' (or lexical concept) is that person's knowledge of Vocabulary . SEE ALSO FURTHER READING
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