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As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
Meg Rosoff

Meaning of "thesaurus" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD THESAURUS

From Latin, Greek: treasure.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF THESAURUS

thesaurus  [θɪˈsɔːrəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THESAURUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thesaurus is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES THESAURUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thesaurus

In general usage, a thesaurus is a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning, in contrast to a dictionary, which provides definitions for words, and generally lists them in alphabetical order. The main purpose of such reference works is to help the user “to find the word, or words, by which idea may be most fitly and aptly expressed” – to quote Peter Mark Roget, architect of the best known thesaurus in the English language. Although including synonyms, a thesaurus should not be taken as a complete list of all the synonyms for a particular word. The entries are also designed for drawing distinctions between similar words and assisting in choosing exactly the right word. Unlike a dictionary, a thesaurus entry does not give the definition of words.

Definition of thesaurus in the English dictionary

The first definition of thesaurus in the dictionary is a book containing systematized lists of synonyms and related words. Other definition of thesaurus is a dictionary of selected words or topics. Thesaurus is also a treasury.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THESAURUS


allosaurus
ˌæləˈsɔːrəs
ankylosaurus
ˌæŋkɪləʊˈsɔːrəs
apatosaurus
əˌpætəˈsɔːrəs
brachiosaurus
ˌbreɪkɪəˈsɔːrəs
brontosaurus
ˌbrɒntəˈsɔːrəs
chorus
ˈkɔːrəs
dolichosaurus
ˌdɒlɪkəʊˈsɔːrəs
hadrosaurus
ˌhædrəˈsɔːrəs
Horus
ˈhɔːrəs
ichthyosaurus
ˌɪkθɪəˈsɔːrəs
Matamoros
ˌmætəˈmɔːrəs
Miraflores
ˌmɪrəˈflɔːrəs
mosasaurus
ˌməʊsəˈsɔːrəs
porous
ˈpɔːrəs
sorus
ˈsɔːrəs
stegosaurus
ˌstɛɡəˈsɔːrəs
Taurus
ˈtɔːrəs
torus
ˈtɔːrəs
tyrannosaurus
tɪˌrænəˈsɔːrəs
uredosorus
jʊˌriːdəʊˈsɔːrəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THESAURUS

thermotropism
theroid
therology
Theron
therophyte
theropod
theropodan
Theroux
Thersites
thersitical
thesaural
thesauri
these
Thesean
theses
Theseus
Thesiger
thesis
thesmothete
thesp

WORDS THAT END LIKE THESAURUS

Arcturus
Centaurus
coenurus
dolichurus
Epicurus
Epidaurus
eremurus
Eurus
miurus
Ten Gurus
urus

Synonyms and antonyms of thesaurus in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «THESAURUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «thesaurus» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of thesaurus

Translation of «thesaurus» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THESAURUS

Find out the translation of thesaurus to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of thesaurus from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «thesaurus» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

同义词汇编手册
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diccionario de sinónimos
570 millions of speakers

English

thesaurus
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कोश
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المكنز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тезаурус
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dicionário de sinônimos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জ্ঞানভাণ্ডার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dictionnaire synonymique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kamus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Synonymwörterbuch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

類語辞典
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유의어 사전
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Thesaurus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kho
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

களஞ்சியத்தை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ज्ञानकोश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sözlük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dizionario dei sinonimi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tezaurus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тезаурус
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tezaur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

θησαυρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tesourus
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tesaurus
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

synonymordboken
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of thesaurus

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THESAURUS»

The term «thesaurus» is very widely used and occupies the 14.387 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THESAURUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «thesaurus» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «thesaurus» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about thesaurus

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5 QUOTES WITH «THESAURUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word thesaurus.
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Dorothy Fields
No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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Paul Johnson
In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.
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Meg Rosoff
As a person with the retentive mental capacity of a goldfish and a dislike of repetition, I frequently make use of the thesaurus built into my Microsoft Word U.K. Software.
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Wale
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.
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Scott Westerfeld
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THESAURUS»

Discover the use of thesaurus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to thesaurus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Well-spoken Thesaurus: The Most Powerful Ways to Say ...
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is your guide to eloquence, replacing the ordinary with the extraordinary.
Tom Heehler, 2011
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Actions: The Actor's Thesaurus
'If you want to act, or act better, Actions will take you a long way on the journey to excellence' Terry Johnson
Marina Caldarone, Maggie Lloyd-Williams, 2004
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Evaluation Thesaurus
This edition includes recent work in personnel evaluation and its relevance to programme evaluation, fresh material on evaluation of scientific theories, contemporary ways to extend objective testing beyond multiple choice items without ...
Michael Scriven, 1991
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Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors
The first print edition in more than 5 years contains a total of 10,773 vocabulary terms with 206 descriptors and 210 "use" references that are new to this thesaurus for locating precise terms from the controlled vocabulary used to index ...
James E. Houston, 2001
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The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to ...
An entertaining and useful alternative to run-of-the-mill thesauri, a new edition of a unique reference offers original synonyms with contextual examples from books, magazines and newspapers. Simultaneous.
Peter E. Meltzer, 2010
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Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery
The corpora range from 40,000 to 6 million characters of text, and results are presented for each in the Appendix. The methods described in the book have undergone extensive evaluation.
Gregory Grefenstette, 1994
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Burton's Legal Thesaurus, Fourth Edition
"8,000 terms, synonyms, definitions, and parts of speech related specifically to the legal profession"--Cover.
‎2007
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Oxford American Desk Dictionary & Thesaurus
Rev. ed. of: Oxford American desk dictionary and thesaurus, 2nd ed., c2006.
Oxford University Press, 2010
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The Flavour Thesaurus
Or lacked inspiration for what to do with a bundle of beetroot? The Flavour Thesaurus is the first book to examine what goes with what, pair by pair. The book follows the form of Roget's Thesaurus.
Niki Segnit, 2010
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Clinician's Thesaurus: The Guide to Conducting Interviews ...
New to This Edition: references, resources, and diagnostic and treatment information are thoroughly updated additional clinical problems: reactive attachment disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and violent behaviors sections on strengths ...
Edward L. Zuckerman, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THESAURUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term thesaurus is used in the context of the following news items.
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Kanye West's not got Dylan's thesaurus blues
'I've never read anything so daft as the use of vocabulary size to compare Kanye West favourably to Bob Dylan,' writes Brian Smith. Photograph: Rex ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Where to begin with the thesaurus punk of Bad Religion
Bad Religion's brand of thesaurus rock always seemed a bit too cerebral for the pop charts, even as the group's hooky, melodic punk became more and more ... «A.V. Club Denver/Boulder, Mar 15»
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Stephen King On Writing: Throw Out Your Thesaurus
Put away your dictionary, your encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket. The only things ... «Lifehacker Australia, Feb 15»
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Plagiarism: Copy, Paste, Thesaurus?
The problem even has a name, Rogeting (after Roget's Thesaurus). British lecturer Chris Sadler named it this after discovering the ruse in some student essays. «Discover Magazine, Feb 15»
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Historical thesaurus reveals how 800000 English words have evolved
The Historical Thesaurus, created by the University of Glasgow, features 800,000 words from 1,000 years of the English language. More than 230 linguists have ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
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Rhodri Marsden's Interesting Objects: Roget's Thesaurus
This weekend marks the 236th birthday of natural scientist Dr Peter Roget, a man so fond of list-making that he penned perhaps the ultimate list: the Thesaurus. «The Independent, Jan 15»
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North Korea's Thesaurus: New US Sanctions an "Inveterate …
Considering that both the US and the UN have been slapping North Korea with various sanctions for years, this particular executive order was largely symbolic. «Gizmodo, Jan 15»
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James Gunn Reveals Extended Version Of Guardians Of The …
James Gunn has revealed an extended version of Guardians of the Galaxy's infamous “Thesaurus joke” made at Drax's expense early in the film. «Comicbook.com, Dec 14»
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Please Stop Right-Click-Thesaurusizing Everything You Write
They may be counting on an imperative technological advance to “help” them write all those essays they'll soon be entrusted: MS Word's thesaurus, harbinger of ... «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
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Watch What Happens When You Search 'Obstructionist' on …
If you search for the word “obstructionist” on Thesaurus.com, the definition is ... Thesaurus.com lists Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus as the source of the entry. «TheBlaze.com, Jul 14»

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