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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Lexicon \Lex"i*con\ (l[e^]ks"[i^]*k[o^]n), n. [Gr. lexiko`n (sc.
     bibli`on), neut. of lexiko`s of or belonging to words, fr.
     le`xis a speaking, speech, a way of speaking, a single word
     or phrase, fr. le`gein to say, to speak. See {Legend}.]
     A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement
     of the words in a language or of a considerable number of
     them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially,
     a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lexicon
       n 1: a language user's knowledge of words [syn: {vocabulary}, {mental
            lexicon}]
       2: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
          with information about them [syn: {dictionary}]

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