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thesaurus
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1823, "treasury, storehouse," from Latin thesaurus "treasury, a hoard, a treasure, something laid up," figuratively "repository, collection," from Greek thesauros "a treasure, treasury, storehouse, chest," from root of tithenai "to put, to place" (see theme ...
Wikipedia
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Thesaurus is an album by American composer/arranger/pianist Clare Fischer , recorded and released in 1969 by Atlantic Records . Reissued in 1979 as '' 'Twas Only Yesterday'' by Discovery Records , and on CD, again by DIscovery, in 1988 as part of a CD entitled ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A thesaurus is normally tailored to meet the specifications of a particular application. ▪ A thesaurus offers terms for individual concepts and shows the relationships between those terms. ▪ A thesaurus was created by the pupils ...
Usage examples of thesaurus.
Bookcases filled with grimoires, daybooks, hornbooks, arcane thesauri, enchiridia, illuminated manuscripts, diaries, palimpsests, incunabula, claviculae, parerga, ana and epilegomena.
Ciceronian, Latinity, which may be found, not in the Glossary of Ducange, but in the Thesaurus of Robert Stephens.
She used the thesaurus program on her computer to generate page-long curses to call down on Peters's head.
Ultimus tandem chalifarum cui sumtus, stipendia, reditus, et thesauri, culinae, caeteraque omnis aulica pompa priorum chalifarum ad instar comparata fuerint.
Esk ducked as a flock of thesauri wheeled past, towing their shelf behind them, and scuttled on hands and knees towards him.
In the meanwhile, I'll be found waiting in front of a computer with a granola bar in one hand (carefully suspended away from the keyboad) and a good book or thesaurus in the other as the utility programs do their stuff.