A list of the words used by a given author, or occurring in a given work (or corpus), usually with references to the passages in which they occur but without quotations.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in American Journal of Philology.
Definition of word index in US English:
word index
noun
A list of the words used by a given author, or occurring in a given work (or corpus), usually with references to the passages in which they occur but without quotations.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in American Journal of Philology.