lexical semantics

1. 1.

   the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words

   Broadersemantics

Questions about lexical semantics

What does lexical semantics mean?

lexical semantics means "the branch of semantics that studies the meanings and relations of words".

Is lexical semantics a common word?

lexical semantics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.