thesaurus
16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Old Greek θησαυρός; its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Pronunciation
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16th century, from Latin thēsaurus, from Old Greek θησαυρός; its current English usage/meaning was established soon after the publication of Peter Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases in 1852. Pronunciation
- IPA: /θɪˈsɔːɹəs/
thesaurus (plural thesauri)
- A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language.
- "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
- (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
- (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings — canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
- French: dictionnaire des synonymes, thésaurus, dictionnaire de notions, dictionnaire par ordre de matières
- German: Thesaurus, Begriffswörterbuch, Sachgruppenwörterbuch
- Italian: dizionario dei sinonimi, tesoro
- Portuguese: dicionário de sinónimos (Portugal), dicionário de sinônimos (Brazil), tesauro, thesaurus
- Russian: теза́урус
- Spanish: diccionario de sinónimos
- Russian: предме́тный указа́тель
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