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the·sau·rus (t̸hi sô′rəs)

noun pl. thesauri -·sau′ri′ (-rī′) or thesauruses -·sau′·ruses

  1. a treasury or storehouse
  2. a book containing a store of words; specif., a book of synonyms and antonyms
  3. a categorized index of terms for use in information retrieval, as from a computer

Etymology: L < Gr thēsauros, a treasure

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thesaurus Synonyms

thesaurus

n.

lexicon, glossary, synonyms and antonyms, synonymy, collection of words; see also dictionary.


Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Copyright © 1999 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

thesaurus Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • term: An article may have more than 20 subject headings, which come from a Thesaurus of controlled terms.

Converse of object

  • navigate: Or you can continue to navigate the thesaurus looking for more possible terms.

Adjective modifier

  • multilingual: Second, we discuss distinct classes of " multilingual thesaurus " , which is used in a fuzzy way in literature.

Modifies a noun

  • hierarchy: Hence, thesaurus hierarchies were more like decision trees than semantic relations.

Noun used with modifier

  • multimedia: In the multimedia thesaurus these will be associated with equivalent text representations.
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