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Definition of Thesaurus

1. Noun. A book containing a classified list of synonyms.

Definition of Thesaurus

1. n. A treasury or storehouse; hence, a repository, especially of knowledge; -- often applied to a comprehensive work, like a dictionary or cyclopedia.

Definition of Thesaurus

1. Noun. A publication, usually in the form of a book, that provides synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) for the words of a given language. ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) A dictionary or encyclopedia. ¹

3. Noun. (information science) A hierarchy of subject headings—canonic titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thesaurus

1. a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms [n -RI or -RUSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thesaurus

Literary usage of Thesaurus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1819)
"thesaurus of Horror" puts the imagination at once on the alert, and mithin;; can be more pointed than the the sinister horn of the dilemma, ..."

2. A View of the Early Parisian Greek Press: Including the Lives of the by William Parr Greswell (1833)
"CONTINUED ANTECEDENT GREEK LEXICONS—HENRY'S thesaurus GR. ... which that almost unparalleled effort of human labour and study, his immense thesaurus LINGU^E ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"... adopted in parish churches (cf. note by William Cole cited i NICHOLS, ix. 789). Morell's reputation as a classical scholar rests on his ' thesaurus ..."

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