Thesaurus

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  • noun. A book of synonyms, often including related and contrasting words and antonyms.
  • noun. A book of selected words or concepts, such as a specialized vocabulary of a particular field, as of medicine or music.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A treasury; a store; especially, thesaurus verborum, or simply thesaurus, a treasury of words; a lexicon.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
  • noun. A dictionary or encyclopedia.
  • noun. A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a book containing a classified list of synonyms
  • Word Usage
    "First there is a dig about people who write pretentiously: in blogworld, demonstrable ownership of a thesaurus is shorthand for 'good writing style'"
    Form
    thesaural  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Doris  Horace  Horus  Morris  Taurus  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    colophon  endif  k  l  m  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    thesauri