What does a lexicographer?

Someone who writes or edits dictionaries.

A lexicographer is someone whose job is to look at what words mean and how they are used, and to use this information to write entries for a dictionaryA compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student...

Lexicographers study words. Their spelling, pronunciation, meaning or meanings, etymology and derivatives. They write dictionaries.

A lexicographer studies words.

Samuel Johnson wrote the first English language dictionary, published in 1755.