lexicalize

verb
/ˈlɛksɪkəlaɪz/

Etymology

From lexical + -ize.

Definitions

  1. To become part of the vocabulary of a language as a single lexical unit with a distinct…

    To become part of the vocabulary of a language as a single lexical unit with a distinct meaning.

  2. To accept a term into one's own vocabulary as a distinct lexical unit.

    • In fact, the child will lexicalize one, two, or three elements of the semantic representation according to his lexicalization span.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lexicalize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA